More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
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.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
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.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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.
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.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
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.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque
