E. M. Crane Quotes

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

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

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.

The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Half of tradition is a lie.

But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.

There is nothing- No life, No joy, No pain- There is nothing save opinion, And opinion be damned.

Everything is bicycle.

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

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.

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

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

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

The voice of God whispers in the heart So softly That the soul pauses, Making no noise, And strives for these melodies, Distant, sighing, like faintest breath, And all the being is still to hear.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.

Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)

I can remember much forgetfulness.

A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

Fashion magazine disease articles. My personal Kryptonite.

Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!

In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.

If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.

People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.

[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras

When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved