John Steinbeck Quotes About Illness

Quotes about: Illness

• And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Food, Believe

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.173, Penguin

• It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

  John Steinbeck

  Insane, Nerves, Calm

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.92, Penguin

• I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

  John Steinbeck

  Greatest Fear, People, Sickness

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.710, Penguin

• I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Attention, Use

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