All Quiet On The Western Front Quotes
Quotations for my English Essay:
- "The war wouldn't be nearly as bad if we could only get more sleep." (p.2)
- “Young men? That was a long time ago. We are old now.” (p.13)
- “Our lives didn’t go
much further than that as yet. And now
- nothing is left of it all.” (p.14)
- “We have lost all our ability to se things in other ways,
because they are artificial. For us, it is only the facts that count.” (p.15)
- “The less they had to say for themselves in Civvy Street,
the more it goes to their heads now.” (p.31)
- “Some old goat was so moved that he referred to us as ‘young
heroes’.” (p.35)
- “We have turned into human animals.” (p.39)
- “The war has ruined us for everything…we’re no longer young
men. We’ve lost any desire to conquer the world…We are fleeing from ourselves…We
believe in the war.” (p.54)
- “I think that we are lost.” (p.85)
- “We are dead men with no feelings.” (p.80)
- “You can get used to anything, even being in the trenches.” (p.96)
- “An order has turned these silent figures into our enemies;
an order could turn them into friends again.” (p.133)
- “I am young…but I know nothing of life except despair,
death, fear and…suffering…Our knowledge of life is limited to death.” (p.180)
- “No man’s land is outside us and inside us too.” (p.185)
- “Let the months come, and the year, they’ll take nothing
more from me, they can take nothing more from me. I am so alone and
devoid of any hope that I can confront them without fear.” (p.200)
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