Quotes from bookAll Quiet on the Western Front
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.
“We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit.”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 6
Context: It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dugout I might have been smashed to atoms, and in the open survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier survives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
