More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
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.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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.
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.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
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.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
