More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
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.
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.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
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.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
