What is it that makes some words ring across a century, and others as the dirt of the trenches? The voices of the lost generation tell of the agony and the brotherhood of a world burning. Test yourself on the attribution of these moving lines in our All Quiet On The Western Front Quotes Quiz.
AQOTWF Quotes Quiz Questions
- “We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
- “Let the months and years come, they can take nothing more from me.”
- “To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier.”
- “I see how people are set against one another and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
- “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.”
- “Every soldier owes the fact that he’s still alive to a thousand lucky chances and nothing else.”
- “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men.”
- “Comradeship is the finest thing that will arise out of the war.”
- “You can’t say ‘yes’ and you can’t say ‘no.’”
- “They talk too much, they have seen nothing, and they are all wrong.”
- “I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear.”
- “A hospital alone shows what war is.”
- “Shells, gas clouds, and death. They are stronger than we are.”
- “It will go pretty hard with us all; but nobody at home seems to worry much about it.”
- “I thought I would take this man’s place, but it is I who will die.”
- “When a man has seen so many dead he can’t take it anymore.”
- “I want that quietness again, that I had only as a child.”
- “The more comfortable you are, the more you will fight.”
- “I see that even our good-natured men begin to hate.”
- “It is not fear. Men are dying for nothing, and I can do nothing.”
- “The war is over for me before it has even begun.”
- “I will never be able to be the same man again.”
- “The days are dead, the love, the hope, the cause—they are all dead.”
- “There are thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced they’re acting for the best.”
- “We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm.”
- “He fell in October 1918, on a day that was all quiet on the Western Front.”
- “I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear.”
- “The war has ruined us for everything.”
- “The front is a cage in which we must wait fearfully.”