Erich Maria RemarqueWe are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial– I believe we are lost.
About This Quote
In this quote, the author is comparing himself and his friends to children. The author believes that they are young and naive and have been "lost" from the world. He also believes that their lives have been filled with many sadnesses. As for being experienced, they have grown up and have become too jaded to fall in love with the world as a child might.
They no longer understand the world as a child would, so they have grown too cynical to be able to fall in love with it. Like an old man, they have become filled with cynicism and have lost all hope of finding meaning in anything anymore.
Source: All Quiet On The Western Front
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