“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
(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
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it. — 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
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
“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
“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
“And suddenly he understands all. Before these crosses the whole fabric of grand abstractions and fine phrases comes crashing down. Here alone… — 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
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
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
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. — 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
“Such things are real problems, they are serious matters to us, they cannot be otherwise. Here, on the borders of death, life… — 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
