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.
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.
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
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.
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.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
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.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
