# Quote — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

> We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

- Author: [Erich Maria Remarque](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque.md)
- Book: [All Quiet on the Western Front](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front.md)
- Page: 88
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/we-are-not

## More from this book

> This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/this-book-is.md)

> No, we are not related. No, we are not related.
>
> Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

p. 291 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/no-we-are.md)

> It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows.

p. 10 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/it-is-very.md)