Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Life is a disease, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“While they went on writing and making speeches, we saw field hospitals and men dying: while they preached the service of the… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“If things went according to the death notices, ... the earth seems to have been populated by a horde of wingless angels… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“I felt the sombre grief, that had sunk down in me like a stone, begin to be lapped about by a wild… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“I knew that the late Zalewski, rest his soul, despite his motto, literally drank himself to death. His wife had on other… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“life is simply one continual watch against the menace of death;—it has transformed us into unthinking animals in order to give us… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“We are two men, two minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death. We sit on the… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Such things are real problems, they are serious matters to us, they cannot be otherwise. Here, on the borders of death, life… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Just as we turn into animals when we go up to the line, because that is the only thing which brings us… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
“It was a long time since I had been in a theatre. And I would not have come now had Pat not wanted it.… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
“Besides,” continued Gottfried, “you’re coming now to the time when the difference between a bourgeois and a cavalier begins to show. A bourgeois always… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
“They are wearing new uniforms and greatcoats; their boots are water-tight and fit well; their rifles are good and their pouches full of ammunition.… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
“Shortly after the war Valentin had come into a little money, and had been drinking it ever since. He considered it his duty to… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
“It keeps them going, staves off the evil day when they will be alone. And to be alone, really alone, without illusion, that way… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
“To hell with it. What was the use trying to make safe and sure our little life? Sooner or later the great wave must… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
“I glance at my boots. They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up one looks well-built and powerful… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share
