Top 30 James Jones Quotes (2024 Update)

James Jones Quote: “This great evil, where’s it come from? How’d it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who’s doing this? Who’s killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might’ve known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?”

1. “This great evil, where’s it come from? How’d it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who’s doing this? Who’s killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might’ve known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?”

— James Jones

James Jones Quote: “If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours.”

2. “If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours.”

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James Jones Quote: “Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.”

3. “Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.”

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James Jones Quote: “It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.”

4. “It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.”

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James Jones Quote: “War don’t ennoble men, it turns ’em into dogs. It poisons the soul.”

5. “War don’t ennoble men, it turns ’em into dogs. It poisons the soul.”

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James Jones Quote: “The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.”

6. “The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.”

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James Jones Quote: “Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you’re not a coward?”

7. “Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you’re not a coward?”

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James Jones Quote: “But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.”

8. “But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.”

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James Jones Quote: “And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway trains, in offices, in mirrors, in love, especially in love, for the self of him that is there, someplace, in every other human. Love was not to give oneself, but find oneself, describe oneself.”

9. “And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway trains, in offices, in mirrors, in love, especially in love, for the self of him that is there, someplace, in every other human. Love was not to give oneself, but find oneself, describe oneself.”

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James Jones Quote: “I write to reach eternity.”

10. “I write to reach eternity.”

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James Jones Quote: “Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.”

11. “Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.”

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James Jones Quote: “Every man has a right to kill himself.”

12. “Every man has a right to kill himself.”

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James Jones Quote: “Some day... as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.”

13. “Some day... as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.”

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James Jones Quote: “The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.”

14. “The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.”

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James Jones Quote: “Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, sometime, someplace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it.”

15. “Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, sometime, someplace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it.”

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James Jones Quote: “He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.”

16. “He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.”

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James Jones Quote: “Love either starves to death and becomes a shadow, or else it dies young and remains a dream.”

17. “Love either starves to death and becomes a shadow, or else it dies young and remains a dream.”

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James Jones Quote: “Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.”

18. “Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.”

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James Jones Quote: “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”

19. “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”

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James Jones Quote: “Is it not also a paradox that in our efforts to escape pain we all run immediately for salvation to human love where we find the greatest pain of all?”

20. “Is it not also a paradox that in our efforts to escape pain we all run immediately for salvation to human love where we find the greatest pain of all?”

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James Jones Quote: “As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend’s grave.”

21. “As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend’s grave.”

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James Jones Quote: “All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.”

22. “All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.”

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James Jones Quote: “Being in love made you especially vulnerable.”

23. “Being in love made you especially vulnerable.”

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James Jones Quote: “All right, all.”

24. “All right, all.”

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James Jones Quote: “Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty years, like a big knife made thin and fragile, needlelike, from constant honings. All that good steel just rubbed away no one knew where.”

25. “Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty years, like a big knife made thin and fragile, needlelike, from constant honings. All that good steel just rubbed away no one knew where.”

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James Jones Quote: “Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.”

26. “Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.”

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James Jones Quote: “It was almost funny, how even lying here terrified and half-expecting to be dead at any moment, his bureaucratic fear of reprimand, of public embarrassment was stronger than his physical fear of dying.”

27. “It was almost funny, how even lying here terrified and half-expecting to be dead at any moment, his bureaucratic fear of reprimand, of public embarrassment was stronger than his physical fear of dying.”

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James Jones Quote: “The little red eyes glared at Prew challenging, almost hoping for some disagreement that would force Old Ike to prove his loyalty to Holmes, Wilson, the Company, and the cause, which might be Better Soldiering; Peacetime Preparedness; or the Perpetuation of An Aristocracy. Nobody could have named the Cause, but then its name was unimportant, as long as the Cause itself remained to levy loyalty.”

28. “The little red eyes glared at Prew challenging, almost hoping for some disagreement that would force Old Ike to prove his loyalty to Holmes, Wilson, the Company, and the cause, which might be Better Soldiering; Peacetime Preparedness; or the Perpetuation of An Aristocracy. Nobody could have named the Cause, but then its name was unimportant, as long as the Cause itself remained to levy loyalty.”

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James Jones Quote: “I’ve owned a thousand houses that I’ve never built,” she said. “Never had the money to build. Couldn’t have used if I had had the money. Never really wanted to build maybe. But I still own the houses.“ – Karen Holmes in From Here To Eternity.”

29. “I’ve owned a thousand houses that I’ve never built,” she said. “Never had the money to build. Couldn’t have used if I had had the money. Never really wanted to build maybe. But I still own the houses.“ – Karen Holmes in From Here To Eternity.”

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James Jones Quote: “It was strange how closely we returnees clung together. We were like a family of orphaned children, split by an epidemic and sent to different care centers. That feeling of an epidemic disease persisted. The people treated us nicely, and cared for us tenderly, and then hurried to wash their hands after touching us. We were somehow unclean. We were tainted. And we ourselves accepted this. We felt it too ourselves. We understood why the civilian people preferred not to look at our injuries.”

30. “It was strange how closely we returnees clung together. We were like a family of orphaned children, split by an epidemic and sent to different care centers. That feeling of an epidemic disease persisted. The people treated us nicely, and cared for us tenderly, and then hurried to wash their hands after touching us. We were somehow unclean. We were tainted. And we ourselves accepted this. We felt it too ourselves. We understood why the civilian people preferred not to look at our injuries.”

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James Jones Quote: “People ain’t mathematics, Jim. If they was, you and Einstein would of fought it out a long time ago, to see who rules the world.”

31. “People ain’t mathematics, Jim. If they was, you and Einstein would of fought it out a long time ago, to see who rules the world.”

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