Quotes by Ernie Pyle
“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.”— Ernie Pyle
“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.”— Ernie Pyle
“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.”— Ernie Pyle
“For me, the war has become a column of men marching endless miles, carrying packs and rifles and being filthy and hungry and afraid.”— Ernie Pyle
“Their life consisted of waiting for the next step, and when the next step came, it was always a step into the unknown.”— Ernie Pyle
“There's nothing romantic, nothing adventurous, nothing of the Hollywood idea of war in it. It's just a dirty, rotten, stinking business.”— Ernie Pyle
“All of a sudden the war is a very personal thing, and it is not a thing you read about in the newspapers.”— Ernie Pyle
“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.”— Ernie Pyle
“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”— Ernie Pyle
“It's the little things that get you through. A letter from home, a good meal, a dry pair of socks.”— Ernie Pyle
“You get to a point where you don't care anymore, and that's the most dangerous point of all.”— Ernie Pyle