“We walked together along the street. At the corner a lorry was standing with bags of coal. The driver lifted the bonnet… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“What is leave?—A pause that only makes everything after it so much worse. Already the sense of parting begins to intrude itself.… — 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
“Smoke cigars, do you?” asks my father in surprise and almost reprovingly. I look at him with a certain wonderment. “But of… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“But he did allow himself to be persuaded, otherwise he would have been ostracized. And perhaps more of us thought as he… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“He looked into my face innocently searching with his clear eyes. He was waiting apparently for me to tell him what it… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“This is good, I like it. But I cannot get on with the people. My mother is the only one who asks… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Below there are cyclists, lorries, men; it is a grey street and a grey subway;—it affects me as though it were my… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
My father, a good man, told me, 'Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.' — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“All at once I feel utterly dejected. “What was the good of it all, Mother?” I say. She strokes my hand. “It… — 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
