Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the...

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater in...

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night...

The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails bene...

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little...

Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgot...

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mn...

Может быть, у смерти совсем другое имя. Мы ведь видим ее всегда только с одной стороны. Может быть, ...

A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't f...

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out,...

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the...

A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogr...

He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man ne...

One always expects something else.

One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

Actually, what does man live for?”“To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die jus...

When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the w...

the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.

The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few ...

What’s going on outside, Ravic?” “Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide...

There is no guilt in feelings ever.

There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orde...

Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again— words, sweet...

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a st...

Close behind us were our friends: Tjaden, a skinny locksmith of our own age, the biggest eater of th...

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in ...

Love should not be polluted with friendship.

The story of the herd of seals. Hundreds of them on a beach; among them the hunter killing one after...

we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best ...

We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we shou...

And so everything is new and brave, red poppies and good food, cigarettes and summer breeze.

Below there are cyclists, lorries, men; it is a grey street and a grey subway;—it affects me as thou...

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that ...

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the w...

The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being s...

We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleei...

If only they would not look at one so-What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger th...

And be very careful at the front, Paul.”Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die...

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us brok...

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popu...

From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does ...

We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so....

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we a...

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, i...

Beside us lies a fair-headed recruit in utter terror. He has buried his face in his hands, his helme...

To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long ...

And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantme...

But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would not have been a war if the Kais...

But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your b...

These memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow-- a vast, inapprehensible mela...

He wants me to tell him about the front; he is curious in a way that I find stupid and distressing; ...

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight an...

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, b...

A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes...

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life

The things men did or felt they had to do.

The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those...

How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possibl...

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death ...

Here I sit and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten ye...

I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;-...

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous ...

Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to...

I glance at my boots. They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up on...

He’s afraid," Graber said."Yes, naturally. But he’s a good dog.""And a man-eater.""We’re all that.""...

We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and ...

A hospital alone shows what war is.

Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so al...

My healthy blood was powerless to cure the sick blood of my beloved. That was beyond understanding. ...

I have awaited a storm that should deliver me, pluck me away and now it has come softly, even withou...

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All ...

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of who...

Actually, what does man live for?” “To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die ju...

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superfici...

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real...

A miracle is never perfect when it happens, there are always little disappointments. But once it’s g...

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, w...

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The fir...

Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best,...

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

...and without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates an...