“Too many people learn about war with no inconvenience to themselves. They read about Verdun or Stalingrad without comprehension, sitting in a comfortable armchair, with their feet beside the fire, preparing to go about their business the next day, as… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer Copy Share
I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have… — Guy Sajer Copy Share
“It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs… — Guy Sajer Copy Share
Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories. — Guy Sajer Copy Share
“As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim… — Guy Sajer Copy Share
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. — Guy Sajer Copy Share
“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of… — Guy Sajer Copy Share
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent… — Guy Sajer Copy Share
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death. — Guy Sajer Copy Share
“A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated… — Guy Sajer Copy Share
“What happened next? I retain nothing from those terrible minutes except indistinct memories which flash into my mind with sudden brutality, like apparitions, among… — Guy Sajer Copy Share
“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be… — Guy Sajer Copy Share
Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love. — Guy Sajer Copy Share
“Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not… — Guy Sajer Copy Share
