Air Quote by Robert Musil

“And suddenly he understands all. Before these crosses the whole fabric of grand abstractions and fine phrases comes crashing down. Here alone the war…

— Erich Maria Remarque

...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who…

— Tana French

“so many white roses whose names won’t survive either, resistance groups and newspapers now as forgotten as soldiers waiting for the enemy veiled in…

— Marie-Claire Blais

“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for…

— Richard Aldington

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

“Every few minutes columns marched past outside, some with crashing military marches, others to the tune of the Internationale, and then again silent, long…

— Erich Maria Remarque

This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate…

— Gideon Welles

“Sometimes at night the only sound was the syncopated footfalls of a Nazi patrol stiffly marching past in their nailed boots. It was like…

— Glenn Haybittle

Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the…

— John Keats

In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for…

— Sherwood Anderson

“We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the…

— Jan Valtin

“There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just…

— John Wyndham