More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque
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.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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.
