War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

- Guy Sajer

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

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

- Guy Sajer

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

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

- Guy Sajer

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 disappointment in love if life…

- Guy Sajer

A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal…

- Guy Sajer

I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have reserved those words a…

- Guy Sajer

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

- Guy Sajer