Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 2

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.