Erich Maria Remarque: "Dia jatuh pada Oktober 1918, pada hari yang beg...

"Dia jatuh pada Oktober 1918, pada hari yang begitu sunyi dan masih di seluruh front, sehingga laporan militer membatasi diri pada satu kalimat: Semua sunyi di Front Barat. Dia telah jatuh ke depan dan berbaring di bumi seolah sedang tidur. Membaliknya menjadi satu melihat bahwa dia tidak mungkin menderita lama; wajahnya menunjukkan ekspresi tenang, seolah-olah hampir senang akhirnya tiba."

--- Erich Maria Remarque

Versi Bahasa Inggris

He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.