Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

“all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

topic:love eternity

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

topic:life

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

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:world war youth

“it awakened in us a strong, practical sense of esprit de corps, which in the field developed into the finest thing that arose out of the war — comradeship.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:war

“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:war poverty

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently,...”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:war youth sorrow

“now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

topic:war

“Extraordinary creatures you young people are, altogether. The past you hate, the present you despise, and the future is a matter of indifference. How do you suppose that can lead to any good end?”

― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

topic:youth

“Paris blacked out. Paris. As if the light of the world were to be blacked out.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

topic:light

“you may turn into an archangel, a fool or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

topic:appearance others

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