Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. — 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. — 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
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“What was the use trying to make safe and sure our little life? Sooner or later the great wave must come and… — 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
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
Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little. — 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
“Comrade, I say to the dead man, but I say it calmly, today you tomorrow me, but if I come out of… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“To hell with it. What was the use trying to make safe and sure our little life? Sooner or later the great… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness… — 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
I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all… — 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
“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
“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
“They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest,… — 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
The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“When I see them here, in their rooms, in their offices, about their occupations, I feel an irresistible attraction in it, I… — 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
“Actually, what does man live for?” “To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die just when he has… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“You are well off, you are alone, Hasse had said. All very well—the man who is alone cannot be forsaken. But sometimes,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“I cannot really play. Either at piano or at life; never, never have I been able to. I have always been too… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“This dead man is bound up with my life, therefore I must do everything, promise everything in order to save myself; I… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Albert expresses it: “The war has ruined us for everything.” He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don’t want… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Listlessly we trudge onward. We had pictured our entry into our own country after the long years out there rather differently from… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness; - I belong to them and they to me;… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“All the older men are linked up with their previous life. They have wives, children, occupations, and interests, they have a background… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“You can’t know anything beforehand. The incurable can survive the healthy. Life is a strange phenomenon.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“One is sad when one thinks about life—cynical when one -sees what people make of it.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“I've not much interest in the important things of life. Only in the beautiful things. Just this lilac here makes me happy.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
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 Image
You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“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 Image
