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Top 30 Ernie Pyle Quotes (2025 Update)

Ernie Pyle Quote: “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.”

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

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “There are no atheists in the foxhole.”

3. “There are no atheists in the foxhole.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.”

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.”

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “Dead men by mass production––in one country after another––month after month and year after year. Dead men in winter and dead men in summer. Dead men in such familiar promiscuity that they become monotonous. Dead men in such monstrous infinity that you come almost to hate them. These are the things that you at home need not even try to understand.”

6. “Dead men by mass production––in one country after another––month after month and year after year. Dead men in winter and dead men in summer. Dead men in such familiar promiscuity that they become monotonous. Dead men in such monstrous infinity that you come almost to hate them. These are the things that you at home need not even try to understand.”

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

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.”

8. “Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “I’ve been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.”

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “Some day I’d like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.”

10. “Some day I’d like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.”

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory – there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.”

13. “In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory – there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.”

14. “But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.”

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.”

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “I try not to take any foolish chances, but there’s just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.”

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.”

18. “I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “It’s alright to have a good opinion of yourself, but we Americans are so smug with our cockiness, we somehow feel that just because we are Americans, we can whip our weight in wildcats.”

20. “It’s alright to have a good opinion of yourself, but we Americans are so smug with our cockiness, we somehow feel that just because we are Americans, we can whip our weight in wildcats.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.”

22. “The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “I’ve really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn’t have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.”

24. “I’ve really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn’t have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.”

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen’s valor only to break out again later.”

26. “The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen’s valor only to break out again later.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

Ernie Pyle Quote: “If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.”

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

Ernie Pyle Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

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