Quiet On The Western Front Quotes

#1. It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Matthew Stover

#2. My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

Tom Hanks

#3. There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

Matt Gallagher

#4. Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

Erich Maria Remarque

#5. 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

Erich Maria Remarque

#6. All Quiet on the Western Front,

Mark Kurlansky

#7. The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

Ann Widdecombe

#8. We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

Erich Maria Remarque

#9. The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Naguib Mahfouz

#10. I don't want to hear about my death.

Oriana Fallaci

#11. And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.

Erich Maria Remarque

#12. We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

Erich Maria Remarque

#13. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Erich Maria Remarque

#14. I do have a very wonderful mentor, who helps me and reads my work and criticizes me, all the time. You've gotta have those people, who will tell you the truth and help you. You don't want anyone buttering you up. I want someone to tell me what I can fix. That's what I like.

Liana Liberato

#15. relational maturity.

Scott Turansky

#16. When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right.

Ryan Winfield

#18. Where there's law there's injustice,

Leo Tolstoy

#19. A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

Danny Boyle

#21. The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them ...

Enrich M. Remarque

#22. You just click your heels and think there's no place like being pwned.

Kim Harrison

#23. We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

Anne Rice

#24. A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

Erich Maria Remarque

#25. All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings - greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance.

Erich Maria Remarque

#26. And be very careful at the front, Paul."
Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!

Erich Maria Remarque

#27. Throughout my career I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.

Jennifer Lopez

#28. A line, a short line, stumbles off into the morning. Thirty two men.

Erich Maria Remarque

#29. Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret ...

Louisa May Alcott