The Lost Generation Quotes

“It was a time of youth and war, and there was never so much love around.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy

“I was entirely unconvinced about anything, except that some people were strong and attractive and could do what they wanted, and others were caught and disgraced.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Kantorek would say that we stood on the threshold of life. And so it would seem. We had as yet taken no root. The war swept us away. For the others, the older men, it is but an interruption. They are able to think beyond it. We, however, have been gripped by it and do not know what the end may be. We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a wasteland.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front