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Paul's generation grew up in the sheltered life of school only to come out of it and go to war without any choice. The tolling bell which means death is calling these young men to their reluctant deaths before they even had a chance to live their lives.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTevoUhDeoM

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These quotes contradict each other. While the AQOTWF quote says that one's voice is also heard when the speaker can be seen, the Meditation quote states that our voices are heard when God is able "bind up all our scattered leaves," leaving our individual voices, our very essence, to only be truly heard after death, when we cannot be seen.

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The tolling of the bell represents the approach of death and how no matter people's illnesses, they will always hear and go towards the ominous tolling of the bell. Even Paul's beloved friend, Kat, succumbs to death's call.

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Mankind as a whole was all apart of the war whether we like it or not because the distress of the warring countries causes a ripple effect, reaching us all.

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An individual dying in the War does not mean it is the end of a book of which we all are chapters. Instead, we will all be translated, one day, into a more meaningful chapter, whether those revised words speak of a life after death, or the significance of our life to the main

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We are all apart of the main, not a speck of existence. All of our fears, anxiety, and achievements are shared as a species.

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In this eerie landscape where death is a high possibility, Detering, a former farmer, considers the life of the horses over his own. He may have thought to not let the horses suffer as one does not want another man to suffer. This selfless act may show God that Detering sees all living creatures to be on the same level of importance. Detering attempts to provide emotional and physical security to the horses (even if it does mean putting them out of their misery) as a man would wish for the same security in God.

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A friend is a light in a long dark tunnel, but also a burden at times. A sense of care can help and hurt. If you care too much, when your comrade suffers or is miserable, you suffer also. However if you are suffering, your friend is there to comfort you. This is why friendships are give and take.

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Paul watches his friend Kemmerich die, leaving him with afflictions some one of which is the burden of telling Kemmerich's parents, and another is being able to overcome the loss of a friend. Everyone experiences their own afflictions throughout every aspect of their lives and as soon as one gets resolved, new ones come to take its place.

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From what Kat says, wars are started by people in positions of power in order to gain recognition. The quote from Meditation XIII states that struggles are a treasure, but not in the sense of money or jewels. Wars are being fought without the thought of who is suffering and how many lives are being sacrificed. The suffering of thousands is being traded for power, land, and money which is what the Meditation XIII quote states is not the purpose for suffering.

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~“As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come, so this bell calls us all; but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness.”

~“Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died.” (Remarque, 138)

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~“When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated”

~"The youngster will hardly survive the carrying, and at the most he will only last a few days. What he has gone through so far is nothing to what he's in for till he dies. Now he is numb and feels nothing. In an hour he will become one screaming bundle of intolerable pain. Every day that he can live will be a howling torture. And to whom does it matter whether he has them or not - I nod." (Remarque, 34

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~“...if by this consideration of another's danger I take mine own into contemplation, and so secure myself, by making my recourse to my God, who is our only security.”

~“One can no longer distinguish whence in this now quiet silvery landscape it comes; ghostly, invisible, it is everywhere, between heaven and earth it rolls on immeasurably. Detering raves and yells out: "Shoot them! Shoot them, can't you? damn you again!"’ (Remarque, 30)

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~“Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it.”

~"I'm not so sure about that," contradicts Kat, "he has not had a war up till now. And every full-grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous. You look in your school books." (Remarque, 98)

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~“Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.”

~"He says nothing; all that lies behind him; he is entirely alone now with his little life of nineteen years, and cries because it leaves him. This is the most disturbing and hardest parting that I ever have seen, although it was pretty bad too with Tjaden, who called for his mother--a big bear of a fellow who, with wild eyes full of terror, held off the doctor from his bed with a dagger until he collapsed." (Remarque, 16)

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~“Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings?”

~“And all men of my age, here and over there, throughout the whole world see these things; all my generation is experiencing these things with me...Through the years our business has been killing;--it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen afterwards? And what shall come out of us?” (Remarque, 125)

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~“God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another.”

~ "Kat turns his eyes to heaven, lets off a mighty fart, and says meditatively: "Every little bean must be heard as well as seen."' (Remarque, 20)

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~“Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing of misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. “

~“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out. Then the muffled roar of the battle becomes a ring that encircles us, we creep in upon ourselves, and with big eyes stare into the night. Our only comfort is the steady breathing of our comrades asleep, and thus we wait for the morning.” (Remarque, 130)

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~“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were”

~“I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life, we are nearer than lovers, in a simpler, a harder way; I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.” (Remarque, 101)

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~“When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too, and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member.”

~"I think it is more of a kind of fever," says Albert. "No one in particular wants it, and then all at once there it is. We didn't want the war, the others say the same thing--and yet half the world is in it all the same." (Remarque, 98)