Stephen Crane Quotes

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

  Stephen Crane

  Profound, Awakening, Sometimes

  Stephen Crane (2004). “The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

  Stephen Crane

  Funny, Men, Political

  "A man said to the universe" l. 1 (1899)

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• Every sin is the result of collaboration.

  Stephen Crane

  Collaboration, Sin, Results

  Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Classic American Short Story MEGAPACK ® (Volume 1): 34 of the Greatest Stories Ever Written”, p.841, Wildside Press LLC

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• Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

  Stephen Crane

  Truth, Wind, Long

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Dover Publications

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• Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

  Stephen Crane

  Finals, Individual, Phenomenon

  Stephen Crane (2016). “The Open Boat and Other Stories”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.

  Stephen Crane

  Dream, Kings, War

  Stephen Crane (1970). “The Works of Stephen Crane Vol. 5: Tales of Adventure”, University of Virginia Press

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• Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Thinking, Wicked

  Stephen Crane, “Think As I Think”

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• A little man said to the Universe. "Sir! I exist." The Universe replied: "That's fine." Just don't think it creates any obligation on my part.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Thinking, Littles

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• Half of tradition is a lie.

  Stephen Crane

  Lying, Half, Tradition

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• In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

  Stephen Crane

  Broken Heart, Good Friend, Hands

  The Black Riders and Other Lines "In the Desert" l. 1 (1895)

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• 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

  Hate, Men, Wish

  Stephen Crane (1998). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.139, OUP Oxford

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• 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

  Running, Pain, Saws

  Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.78, Broadview Press

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• It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Teeth, Finals

  Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.119, Broadview Press

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• Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

  Stephen Crane

  Wisdom, Children, Wall

  Stephen Crane (2015). “Men, Women, and Boats”, p.181, The Floating Press

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• The fact has not created in me
  A sense of obligation.

  Stephen Crane

  Facts, Obligation

  "A man said to the universe" l. 1 (1899)

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• There is nothing-
  No life,
  No joy,
  No pain-
  There is nothing save opinion,
  And opinion be damned.

  Stephen Crane

  Pain, Joy, Opinion

  Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

  Stephen Crane

  Heart, Bitter, My Heart

  The Black Riders and Other Lines "In the Desert" l. 1 (1895)

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• The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Affection, Stage

  David Halliburton, Stephen Crane (1989). “The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• The voice of God whispers in the heart
  So softly
  That the soul pauses,
  Making no noise,
  And strives for these melodies,
  Distant, sighing, like faintest breath,
  And all the being is still to hear.

  Stephen Crane

  Heart, Voice, Soul

  Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads.

  Stephen Crane

  Weed, Truth, Knives

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• Everything is bicycle.

  Stephen Crane

  Cycling, Bicycle

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.859, Library of America

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• I walked in a desert.
  And I cried,
  ‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’
  I cried, ‘Well, But -
  The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’

  Stephen Crane

  Voice, Desert, Horizon

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America

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• 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

  Men, Tree, Firsts

  Stephen Crane (1994). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions

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• It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

  Stephen Crane

  Gone, Golden, Midst

  Stephen Crane (2004). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc

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• I saw a man pursuing the horizon

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Horizon, Saws

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.53, Courier Dover Publications

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