"Strange how complicated we can make things just……" — Erich Maria Remarque
"Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!"
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Erich Maria Remarque
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109 Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque has 109 quotes on this site.
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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into…
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The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike…
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived…
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Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than…
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To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I…
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The war has ruined us for everything.
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I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like…
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with…
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It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been…
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
— Richard Bach
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
— Joey Adams
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
— Conrad Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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