Quotes by Guy Sajer

About Guy Sajer:

Guy Sajer is a French writer, author of Le soldat oublié (1976, translated as The Forgotten Soldier), and a cartoonist under the pen names Dimitri, and Dimitri Lahache. He is the son of a French father and a German mother: Sajer is his mother's maiden name.
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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

As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.

Guy Sajer

A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition.

Guy Sajer

Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be remembered.

Guy Sajer

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

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

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 human condition.

Guy Sajer

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

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

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 itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and t...

Guy Sajer

Author Bio

  • NameGuy Sajer
  • DescriptionFrench military writer and cartoonist
  • BornJanuary 13, 1927
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionComics Artist
  • AwardsPrix Des Deux Magots