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Life Quotes by 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 the wounded, and…
- We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
- A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is…
- (Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms…
- They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing…
- We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first…
- I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss…
- Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope…
- I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to…
- The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...…
- Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
- For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love…
- Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward…
- We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life.…
- Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
- With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
- I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same…
- And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that…
- Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.
- To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he…
- Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
- Our knowledge of life is limited to death
- Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
- Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle