More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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.
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.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
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.
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.
