Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with en — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of dut — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisd — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Our knowledge of life is limited to death — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces. — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifl — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all li — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the hor — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. An — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. F — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad. — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
The things men did or felt they had to do. — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;--then at last the la — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Beside us lies a fair-headed recruit in utter terror. He has buried his face in his hands, his helmet has fallen off. I — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces. — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so mu — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front