Quotes by Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane

A learned man came to me once. He said, “I know the way, — come.” And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, “I am lost.

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Hands

Men

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.

Littles

Men

Thinking

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

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Men

Wise

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

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Political

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.

Men

Play

Thinking

A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

Danger

Fraternity

Mysterious

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.

Firsts

Men

Tree

A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.

Average

Lying

Sea

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil’s Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

Book

Boys

Devil

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

Enemy

Fate

Soldier

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Quotes by Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane

A learned man came to me once. He said, “I know the way, — come.” And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, “I am lost.

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.

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

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

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.

A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

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.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

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