“Shortly after the war Valentin had come into a little money, and had been drinking it ever since. He considered it his… — 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
“I glance at my boots. They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up one looks well-built… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“When I see them here, in their rooms, in their offices, about their occupations, I feel an irresistible attraction in it, I… — 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
“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 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
“Albert expresses it: “The war has ruined us for everything.” He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don’t want… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;--then at… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Obuze, mitraliere, aburi de gaze, flotile de tancuri - strivire, devorare, moarte.” — 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
“The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would not have been a war if the Kaiser had… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“They talk too much for me. They have worries, aims, desires, that I cannot understand. I often sit with one of them… — 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
It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at… — 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
“Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay and the war would be over and done in a day.” — 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
