“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
“Night is nature's protest against the leprosy of civilization, Gottfried. No decent man can withstand it for long. He begins to notice… — 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
“He was pious... He must... He can’t possibly have remembered that this way he would not be allowed to lie in consecrated… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The miracle has passed me by; it has touched but not changed me; I still have the same name and I know… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Those are the dangerous moments. They show us that the adjustment is only artificial, that it is not simple rest, but sharpest… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel 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
“This dirty, damp patch of grass—was this really the setting of those years of my childhood, so radiant and winged in my… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“They are many indeed that lie there, though until now we have not thought of it so. Hitherto we have just all… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“You’re going into the hospital, all right, Heinrich,” says Bethke, comforting him. But he would not listen. “Let be.” Thereafter he does… — 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
