We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain.… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves.… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it -… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From… — 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
