No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“I love him, his shoulders, his angular, stooping figure – and at the same time I see behind him woods and stars,… — 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
“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
The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want… — 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… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“The smoke of pipes and cigars fills the room. Desires, thoughts, ambitions in seething confusion. God only knows what will come of… — 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
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
