The quotations of

Stephen Crane

American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist

1871–1900

11 quotes, most often on War & Peace and Nature.

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.
War Is Kind (1899)In context
- War & Peace
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.”
In the Desert (1895)In context
- Emotion
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter IIn context
- Nature
- War & Peace
They were going to look at war, the red animal⁠—war, the blood-swollen god.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter IIIIn context
- War & Peace
It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter VIn context
- Nature
- War & Peace
At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter IXIn context
- Courage
- War & Peace
The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter IXIn context
- Nature
He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Religion
- War & Peace
He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter XXIVIn context
- Life & Death
- Maturity
He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part⁠—a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country⁠—was in crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter VIn context
- War & Peace
Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.
The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter XXIVIn context
- Hope
- Nature

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