"But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your r…"

"It is when one is alone that one begins to observe Nature and to love her."

"A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends."

"Tjaden reappears. He is still quite excited and again joins the conversation, wondering just how a war gets started. …"

"It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic …"

"It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I …"

"This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventu…"

"We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From ou…"

"We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers — we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant hum…"

"A hospital alone shows what war is."