Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

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• A hospital alone shows what war is.
• In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and…
• The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and…
• Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
• We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
• The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they…
• Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young?…
• To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the…
• The war has ruined us for everything.
• I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close…
• Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
• Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle,…
• It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out…
• We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be…
• The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and…
• On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It…
• What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
• My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
• No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
• Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

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