All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

pushing up daisies.”

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in a way that cost them nothing.

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important for us. And good boots are scarce.

embowered

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.

They are merely honest and call a thing by its name; for there is a very great deal of fraud, injustice, and baseness in the army.

What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school.