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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
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.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
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.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque
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.
