# Stephen Crane

- Quotes: 8
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane

## Books

- [The Red Badge of Courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage.md) — 8 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage/the-cold-passed.md)

Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md)

> He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage/he-had-fought.md)

Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md)

> He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage/he-had-been.md)

Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md)

> The line, broken into moving fragments by the ground, went calmly on through fields and woods. The youth looked at the men nearest him, and saw, for the most part, expressions of deep interest, as if they were investigating something that had fascinated them. One or two stepped with overvaliant airs as if they were already plunged into war. Others walked as upon thin ice. The greater part of the untested men appeared quiet and absorbed. They were going to look at war, the red animal — war, the blood-swollen god. And they were deeply engrossed in this march.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage/the-line-broken.md)

Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage/it-was-surprising.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)

> The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage/the-red-sun.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)

> It rained. The procession of weary soldiers became a bedraggled train, despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort in a trough of liquid brown mud under a low, wretched sky. Yet the youth smiled, for he saw that the world was a world for him, though many discovered it to be made of oaths and walking sticks. He had rid himself of the red sickness of battle. The sultry nightmare was in the past. He had been an animal blistered and sweating in the heat and pain of war. He turned now with a lover's thirst to images of tranquil skies, fresh meadows, cool brooks — an existence of soft and eternal peace.
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> Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage/it-rained-the.md)

Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage/at-times-he-regarded.md)

Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md)