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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
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.
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.
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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.
