Stephen Crane Quotes

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about.

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

There is no distinction of persons among them, and deference is shown to merit rather than to noble blood.

You can’t be rich, strong, and loved, particularly by those who are not rich or strong.

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor. Outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure. It's a blessing to wash your face in the summer solstice rain. It's outrageous a man like me stand here and complain. But I'm tired.

I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing.

When I was growing up, I got a lot of, 'Oh, well, she bought the nicest horse, so of course she's going to win.' And I dealt with a lot of that.

I think that not being all that overwhelmed by good reviews is a luxury. I'm like a rich person who says he doesn't care about money.

When I read in newspapers that farmers are dying because of water shortage, I felt deeply pained that we have best of everything, yet we complain so much, whereas there are people who do not even have access to basic necessities of life.

I treat everyone with the same respect they treat me with. Just because I earn more money doesn't make me more special than them or give me the right to talk to them in a certain manner.

I know the world is mean, that there is so much suffering on the planet that none of us can imagine. I often think of those who have nothing, who have to suffer every day, so a winner, a game, set, match will never give me immense joy, only satisfaction.

Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.