Life Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

“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

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

“Life is a disease, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“You can’t know anything beforehand. The incurable can survive the healthy. Life is a strange phenomenon.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

— Erich Maria Remarque

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

— Erich Maria Remarque

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

— Erich Maria Remarque

Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.

— Erich Maria Remarque

“One is sad when one thinks about life—cynical when one -sees what people make of it.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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

“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