“You see,” said Otto. “That’s the gift of age. Tears and laughter—quick changes. No resentments. Something one might well learn,” he observed… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. — 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
Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;--then at… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“What has Kantorek written to you?” Müller asks him. He laughs. “We are the Iron Youth.” We all three smile bitterly, Kropp… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Educationalists who think they can understand the young are enthusiasts. Youth does not want to be understood; it wants only to be… — 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
