More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Keep things at arm's length. If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
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.
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.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
