War Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

The war has ruined us for everything.

— Erich Maria Remarque

A hospital alone shows what war is.

— Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front.

— Erich Maria Remarque

You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Obuze, mitraliere, aburi de gaze, flotile de tancuri - strivire, devorare, moarte.”

— 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

“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

“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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

“I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who…

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

“Pred platnima impresionista čovek nije mogao verovati da jedna životinjska vrsta koja je tako nešto stvorila može istovremeno spremati ubilački rat”

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at…

— 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

How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies…

— 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

“Now we would wander around like strangers in those landscapes of our youth. We have been consumed in the fires of reality,…

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

“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

“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

“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

In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack…

— 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From…

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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