# Quote — Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

> 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.

- Author: [Stephen Crane](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane.md)
- Book: [The Red Badge of Courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage.md)
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- Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-crane/the-red-badge-of-courage/at-times-he-regarded

## More from this book

> 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)