Stephen Crane Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

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

  Stephen Crane

  Funny, Men, Political

  "A man said to the universe" l. 1 (1899)

• When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.

  Stephen Crane

  Hate, Men, Wish

  Stephen Crane (1998). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.139, OUP Oxford

• 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.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Thinking, Littles

• 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.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Stephen Crane, Anthony Matthew Mellors, Fiona Robertson (1998). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.77, Oxford Paperbacks

• The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Affection, Stage

  David Halliburton, Stephen Crane (1989). “The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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