"We were eighteen and had begun to love……" — Erich Maria Remarque

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world;… - Erich Maria Remarque

"We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces."

— 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!
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…
It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been…

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Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me. — Sean Astin
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the… — Saint Augustine
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he… — Sri Aurobindo
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most… — Teresa of Avila
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without… — Teresa of Avila
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. — Douglas Adams
A well begun is half ended. — A. C. Benson
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've… — Lionel Blue
Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think… — Vince Cable
Wars are begun by frightened men. — Tom Clancy

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