All Quiet On The Western Front Quote Identification Quiz

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was all quiet on the Western Front.”

“The front is a cage in which we must wait fearfully.”

“It is not fear. Men are dying for nothing, and I can do nothing.”

“Comradeship is the finest thing that will arise out of the war.”

“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men.”

“Shells, gas clouds, and death. They are stronger than we are.”

“They talk too much, they have seen nothing, and they are all wrong.”

“Every soldier owes the fact that he’s still alive to a thousand lucky chances and nothing else.”

“When a man has seen so many dead he can’t take it anymore.”

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

“A hospital alone shows what war is.”

“The days are dead, the love, the hope, the cause—they are all dead.”

“I will never be able to be the same man again.”

“I see how people are set against one another and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear.”

“You can’t say ‘yes’ and you can’t say ‘no.’”

“The more comfortable you are, the more you will fight.”

“There are thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced they’re acting for the best.”

“I thought I would take this man’s place, but it is I who will die.”

“Let the months and years come, they can take nothing more from me.”

“The war has ruined us for everything.”

“To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier.”

“It’s strange to see men who’ve known nothing but shouting commands suddenly be so small in front of death.”

“I want to feel the silent promise of the earth: the peace of the night, and the stillness of my soul.”

“I see that even our good-natured men begin to hate.”

“I want that quietness again, that I had only as a child.”

“The war is over for me before it has even begun.”

“It will go pretty hard with us all; but nobody at home seems to worry much about it.”

“I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear.”

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm.”