Erich Maria Remarque quotes

Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist, best known for his anti-war classic "All Quiet on the Western Front." His works poignantly depict the trauma and disillusionment experienced by soldiers during and after World War I. He remains a powerful voice against the devastation of war and its impact on humanity. Here are 72 of his quotes:

Anything you can settle with money is cheap. (Erich Maria Remarque)
The death of one man is death, the death of two millions is a statistic. View quote
Erich Maria Remarque
A hospital alone shows what war is. View quote
Erich Maria Remarque
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals. View quote
Erich Maria Remarque
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. View quote
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The less a man loves himself, the more he values. View quote
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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for. View quote
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To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. View quote
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I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do. View quote
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But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else. View quote
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Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. (Erich Maria Remarque)
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel! View quote
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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory. View quote
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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. View quote
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Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it. View quote
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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world. View quote
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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial-I believe we are lost. View quote
Erich Maria Remarque
we have so much to say, and we shall never say it. View quote
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Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it. View quote
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Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end. View quote
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We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through. (Erich Maria Remarque)
For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge. View quote
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With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement. View quote
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I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was. View quote
Erich Maria Remarque
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. View quote
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Erich Maria Remarque

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Occupation: German Writer
Born: June 22, 1898
Died: September 25, 1970
Quotes count: 72
Wikipedia: Erich Maria Remarque

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