Stephen Crane Quotes
A learned man came to me once.He said, "I know the way, -- come."And I was overjoyed at this.Togethe...
Show MoreIf I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the nam...
Show MoreWhen it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would n...
Show MoreIt is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe,...
Show MoreNone of them knew the color of the sky.
Every sin is the result of a colaboration
This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.
But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved hisrespectability by a...
Show MoreNevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moo...
Show MoreTell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap ...
Show MoreIt was wrong to do this," said the angel."You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,...
Show MoreWhen the prophet, a complacent fat man,Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I i...
Show MoreWhen the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one ...
Show MoreSometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indiff...
Show MoreThere was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing,And in truth it was lamentable.But there was ...
Show MoreIt appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the...
Show MoreCamp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.
A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything tha...
Show MoreHis face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demons...
Show MoreThe moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.
He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.
The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than...
Show MoreIt perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been...
Show MoreTwo or three angelsCame near to the earth.They saw a fat church.Little black streams of peopleCame a...
Show MoreDo not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affr...
Show MoreThese men were born to drill and die. Point for them the virtue of the slaughter, ...
Show MoreHe saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at suc...
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