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Stephen Crane QUOTES

Stephen Crane QUOTES

1 " Two or three angels
Came near to the earth.
They saw a fat church.
Little black streams of people
Came and went in continually.
And the angels were puzzled
To know why the people went thus,
And why they stayed so long within. "

― Stephen Crane , Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

2 " Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys. "

― Stephen Crane , Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

3 " It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another. "

― Stephen Crane , The Portable Stephen Crane

4 " A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

5 " If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees? "

― Stephen Crane , The Open Boat and Other Stories

6 " Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep.
War is kind.

Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die.
The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie.

Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. "

― Stephen Crane

7 " He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. "

― Stephen Crane

8 " These men were born to drill and die.
            Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,
            Make plain to them the excellence of killing
            And a field where a thousand corpses lie. "

― Stephen Crane

9 " But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved his
respectability by a vigorous side-step. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how was he to
know that there was a soul before him that needed saving? "

― Stephen Crane , Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction

10 " This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb. "

― Stephen Crane , Blue Hotel

11 " Every sin is the result of a colaboration "

― Stephen Crane ,

12 " A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

13 " The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

14 " It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

15 " Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

16 " He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range. "

― Stephen Crane , The Red Badge of Courage

17 " It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe, should see the innumerable flaws of his life and have them taste wickedly in his mind and wish for another chance. "

― Stephen Crane , The Open Boat

18 " Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments. "

― Stephen Crane

19 " When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. "

― Stephen Crane , The Open Boat

20 " The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to
even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down. "

― Stephen Crane