"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.”

The famous last paragraph of one of my all time favourite books, Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front". This passage poignantly underscores the tragic irony of Paul Baumer's death on a day described as quiet, emphasizing the deep human cost of war.