5 John Steinbeck Quotes on Time

John Steinbeck quotes on time

29. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

31. Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

32. Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

66. Time is the only critic without ambition.

68. I have owed you this letter for a very long time - but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.