Our Knowledge Of Life Is Limited To

It's Only Terrible To Have Nothing To Wait For.

Someone Said To Me Once That A Cigarette At The Right Moment Is Better Than All The Ideals In The World.

Keep Things At Arm's Length... If You Let Anything Come Too Near You Want To Hold On To It. And There Is Nothing A Man Can Hold On To.

I Want To Think And At The Same Time That's The Last Thing In The World I Want To Do.

We Were Eighteen And Had Begun To Love Life And The World; And We Had To Shoot It To Pieces. The First Bomb, The First Explosion, Burst In Our Hearts. We Are Cut Off From Activity, From Striving, From Progress. We Believe In Such Things No Longer, We Believe In The War." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5