Paul to the corpse of a French man he has just killed, Ch. 9
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Quotes from book
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Original title
Im Westen nichts Neues
(German, 1929)
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.
“A hospital alone shows what war is.”
Paul after seeing the horrific state of wounded soldiers in a hospital near the front, Ch. 10
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Epigraph
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
'Then I can be going home right away,' retorts Tjaden, and we all laugh.
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 9
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 4
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Paul after visiting Russian prisoners, Ch. 8
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
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“Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.”
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“You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.”
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Paul to the corpse of a French man he has just killed, Ch. 9
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Context: I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
