“It was a long time since I had been in a theatre. And I would not have come now had Pat not… — 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… — 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
But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“These memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow - a vast, inapprehensible melancholy. Once we had such… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“It was not the first time I had caught her so. She used to come to us for two hours every morning… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work,… — 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
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
“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
“We remained there some time, then went back into the other galleries of the museum. In the interval more people had arrived,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“I imagined leave would be different from this. Indeed, it was different a year ago. It is I of course that have… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“I am thinking of those strange moments when unexpectedly a kind of second sight like a deceptive memory seems suddenly to give… — 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
“But it proved otherwise. He shuffled about for some time, examining this thing and that thing; then he looked at me with… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Those are the dangerous moments. They show us that the adjustment is only artificial, that it is not simple rest, but sharpest… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Extraordinary creatures you young people are, altogether. The past you hate, the present you despise, and the future is a matter of… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“For a moment I held her hand in mine and felt her warm, dry pressure. Then I went out to get the… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Lilly was Rosa’s best friend. She had a brilliant career behind her. She had been what is the unattainable ambition of every… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school.… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world. — 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
