--- title: "9 Quiet Quotes By Erich Maria Remarque" description: "9 Quiet quotes by Erich Maria Remarque. Plus more from Erich Maria Remarque and more Quiet sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebb/erich-maria-remarque-568_1930s_all-quiet-on-the-western-front-2879619_2879619.jpg" --- > [All Quiet on the Western Front.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebb/erich-maria-remarque-568_1930s_all-quiet-on-the-western-front-2879619_2879619.jpg) > [No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/no-soldier-outlives-a-thousand-chances-but-every-soldier-believes-in/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86e/erich-maria-remarque-568_believe_no-soldier-outlives-a-thousand-chances-b_3050002.jpg) > [Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/give-em-all-the-same-grub-and-all-the-same-pay-and-the-war-would-be-2/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/erich-maria-remarque-568_done_give-em-all-the-same-grub-and-all-the-sa_3153359.jpg) > [We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/we-have-lost-all-sense-of-other-considerations-because-they-are/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55f/erich-maria-remarque-568_boots_we-have-lost-all-sense-of-other-consider_907309.jpg) > [We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/we-lie-under-the-network-of-arching-shells-and-live-in-a-suspense-of/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15e/erich-maria-remarque-568_determine_we-lie-under-the-network-of-arching-shel_761829.jpg) > [We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/we-march-up-moody-or-good-tempered-soldiers-we-reach-the-zone-where/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d55/erich-maria-remarque-568_animal_we-march-up-moody-or-good-tempered-soldi_2799037.jpg) > [We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/we-were-eighteen-and-had-begun-to-love-life-and-the-world-and-we-had-2/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e93/erich-maria-remarque-568_believe_we-were-eighteen-and-had-begun-to-love-l_2056980.jpg) > [Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/let-the-months-and-years-come-they-can-take-nothing-from-me-they-can/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf4/erich-maria-remarque-568_chapters_let-the-months-and-years-come-they-can-t_727471.jpg) > [He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/he-fell-in-october-1918-on-a-day-that-was-so-quiet-and-still-on-the/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/erich-maria-remarque-568_army_he-fell-in-october-1918-on-a-day-that-wa_2623463.jpg) ## Other authors on Quiet ## More by Erich Maria Remarque > [There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/there-was-only-the-broad-square-with-the-scattered-dim-moons-of-the/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/the-idea-of-authority-which-they-represented-was-associated-in-our/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“It was a long time since I had been in a theatre. And I would not have come now had Pat not wanted it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/it-was-a-long-time-since-i-had-been-in-a-theatre-and-i-would-not-have/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/besides-continued-gottfried-you-re-coming-now-to-the-time-when-the/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/they-are-wearing-new-uniforms-and-greatcoats-their-boots-are-water/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“Shortly after the war Valentin had come into a little money, and had been drinking it ever since. He considered it his duty to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/shortly-after-the-war-valentin-had-come-into-a-little-money-and-had/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“A man has to have something he can put faith in.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/a-man-has-to-have-something-he-can-put-faith-in/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/it-is-very-queer-that-the-unhappiness-of-the-world-is-so-often/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/i-too-am-going-to-go-away-soon-she-says-i-am-weary-and-weary-of-my/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“One is never too young. Only always too old.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/one-is-never-too-young-only-always-too-old/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/you-take-it-from-me-we-are-losing-the-war-because-we-can-salute-too/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“It keeps them going, staves off the evil day when they will be alone. And to be alone, really alone, without illusion, that way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/it-keeps-them-going-staves-off-the-evil-day-when-they-will-be-alone/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/suddenly-he-knew-all-the-things-he-should-have-said/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 wave must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/to-hell-with-it-what-was-the-use-trying-to-make-safe-and-sure-our/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/i-glance-at-my-boots-they-are-big-and-clumsy-the-breeches-are-tucked/) [Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/quiet/erich-maria-remarque/#itemlist", "name": "9 Quiet Quotes By Erich Maria Remarque", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All Quiet on the Western Front.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Erich Maria Remarque" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebb/erich-maria-remarque-568_1930s_all-quiet-on-the-western-front-2879619_2879619.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebb/erich-maria-remarque-568_1930s_all-quiet-on-the-western-front-2879619_2879619.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebb/erich-maria-remarque-568_1930s_all-quiet-on-the-western-front-2879619_2879619.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All Quiet on the Western Front.” — Erich Maria Remarque", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No soldier outlives a thousand chances. 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