Ernie Pyle Quotes

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

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.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

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.

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

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.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

There are no atheists in the foxhole.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

There is no sense in the struggle but there is no choice but to struggle.