Ernie Pyle

“There is no nobility in war.”

“I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.”

“The first day of the <strong class="highlight">warstrong> is the day of crisis, but it is not the day of ultimate suffering. The first day of the <strong class="highlight">warstrong> is a day when men should be strong.”

“There's nothing romantic, nothing adventurous, nothing of the Hollywood idea of war in it. It's just a dirty, rotten, stinking business.”

“I have been immersed in it now for twenty-seven months. To me the war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.”

“For me, the war has become a column of men marching endless miles, carrying packs and rifles and being filthy and hungry and afraid.”

“I’m a rabid believer in the underdog. I like to see the little guy win.”

“All of a sudden the war is a very personal thing, and it is not a thing you read about in the newspapers.”

“When you've lived with it as long as I have, you don't see the war as a whole anymore. You see it only in terms of the individual.”

“I'm not a brave man. I'm a terribly frightened man, and I've been scared to death all the time. But I've tried not to show it.”

“It is my belief that the only way to write about the war is to be in it.”

“The front is a place of terrible beauty.”

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

“Their life consisted of waiting for the next step, and when the next step came, it was always a step into the unknown.”

“It's the little things that get you through. A letter from home, a good meal, a dry pair of socks.”

“You get to a point where you don't care anymore, and that's the most dangerous point of all.”

“It is a sobering thing to be in the presence of a man who is going to die and to know it.”