quotes (alq) Flashcards
“Young men of iron.
Young? None of us are more than twenty. But young? Young men? We are old now.”
(shortened) “…the best thing that the war produced
- comradeship in arms.”
“With the first
rumble of shellfire, one part of our being hurls itself back a thousand years.”
“We are refugees. We are fleeing from
ourselves. From our lives.”
“We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun
to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it.”
“If your own father
came across with those from the other side you wouldn’t hesitate to hurl a hand-grenade straight at him!”
“I stand silent
in front of them, as if I were on trial.”
CONT
Dispirited. / Words, words words - they can’t reach me”
“A German mountain can’t insult a French mountain,
or a river, or a forest, or a cornfield.”
“If we threw these uniforms
away you could be just as much my brother as Kat and Albert.”
“That’s why we seize every opportunity,
and why terror finishes up cheek by jowl with tomfoolery…”
“Our knowledge of life
is limited to death.”
“War is another cause of death,
like cancer or tuberculosis or influenza or dysentery.”
E “It has made us into thinking
animals so that we can have instinct as a weapon.”
“…his face wore
an expression that was so composed that it looked as if he were almost happy it turned out that way.”
“The front is a cage,
and you have to wait nervously in it for whatever happens to you.”
