Big things Quote by Erich Maria Remarque

There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“It was a long time since I had been in a theatre. And I would not have come now had Pat not wanted it.…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Besides,” continued Gottfried, “you’re coming now to the time when the difference between a bourgeois and a cavalier begins to show. A bourgeois always…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“They are wearing new uniforms and greatcoats; their boots are water-tight and fit well; their rifles are good and their pouches full of ammunition.…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Shortly after the war Valentin had come into a little money, and had been drinking it ever since. He considered it his duty to…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“A man has to have something he can put faith in.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“One is never too young. Only always too old.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

— Erich Maria Remarque

“It keeps them going, staves off the evil day when they will be alone. And to be alone, really alone, without illusion, that way…

— Erich Maria Remarque