More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
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.
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.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
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.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
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
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
