American - Journalist | August 3, 1900 - April 18, 1945
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
Ernie Pyle
ChangeOld FriendsSpringFighting
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
PeaceWorldNightStandBridges
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
AngryBeeBlindWaveGrindNew
The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.
WalkMenLookingFeetSlowWalking
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
MenWarRoutineEarthStrangeOut
I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
GreatMindHurtConfusedLongBeen
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
AloneEnoughLongYouBathGo
All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
WarMeRestYouWantAfrica
At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.
LifeEverythingUpLastOutlookOur
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
BridgesBuildingsDarkShadowsUs
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
LifeWarMeWritingBattleFighting
I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.
StruggleSickColdThinkWillGoing
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Ernie Pyle quotes