An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Quotes

“He had power only to feel, and feeling was torment.”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

“It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble.”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

“The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion. Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

“He dug his fingers into the sand, threw it over himself in handfuls and audibly blessed it. It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could not think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble.”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

“All that day he travelled, laying his course by the rounding sun. The forest seemed interminable; nowhere did he discover a break in it, not even a woodman's road. He had not known that he lived in so wild a region. There was something uncanny in the revelation.”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

“Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

“He looked a moment at his "unsteadfast footing," then let his gaze wander to the swirling water of the stream racing madly beneath his feet. A piece of dancing driftwood caught his attention and his eyes followed it down the current. How slowly it appeared to move! What a sluggish stream!”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge