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.
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.
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.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
