All Quiet on the Western Front Quotes

“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:worldwaryouth

“it awakened in us a strong, practical sense of esprit de corps, which in the field developed into the finest thing that arose out of the war — comradeship.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:war

“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:warpoverty

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently,...”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:waryouthsorrow

“now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:war