Books 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