"The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death……" — Erich Maria Remarque

"The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it"

— Erich Maria Remarque

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109 Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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 storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike…
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…
Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than…
To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I…
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…
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…

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More Coffin Quotes

This quote is filed under Coffin Quotes, one of 174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin,… — Emilie Autumn
Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the… — Joe Baca
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. — Henry Ward Beecher
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. — Bertolt Brecht
If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin… — Kris Carr
The body of the sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow — Nicki Minaj
With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not… — Anna Quindlen
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. — Alexander Smith
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously. — Oliver Goldsmith
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin. — John Philpot Curran
You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin. — Joe Orton

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