I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.

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

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

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

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.