A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

Quote by John Steinbeck

Topics: Death And Dying Quotes, Past Quotes, Time Quotes

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of...

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of...

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy,...

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy,...

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is...

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is...

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a...

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a...

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar...

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar...

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if...

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if...

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas...

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas...

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up...

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in...

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy...

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy...

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're...

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in...

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to...

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to...