Shoiab

“I know nothing
about them except that they are prisoners-of-war, and that is precisely what
shakes me. Their lives are anonymous and blameless; if I knew more about
them, what they are called, how they live, what their hopes and fears are,
then my feelings might have a focus and could turn into sympathy. But at the
moment all I sense in them is the pain of the dumb animal, the fearful
melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men.

- Paul Buemer”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“I think it’s more a kind of fever, Nobody really wants it,
but all of a sudden, there it is. We didn’t want the war, they say the same
thing on the other side – and in spite of that, half the world is at it hammer
and tongs. - Albert Kropp”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“You have no idea. You don’t know what you have. You have your youth and you’re beautiful, but you’re hungry, and that hunger blinds you to what you already have. All those raging hormones, making every decision for you. You’re always hurting, but you’ve never been hurt. Not really. Later on, though, you’ll realize youth is truly wasted on the young.
Right now, you’re pretending you’re what, twenty-one? Later on, you’ll
want to be twenty-one again. Really, no matter what age you are—ten
or a hundred—you’ll want to be twenty-one.
And, just as when you were a little kid, you’ll demand your dignity
before you earn it.”
― Craig DiLouie, Suffer the Children

“People who write the false things and cause a disrupt ought to be strung up.
They’re the real villains”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front