More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
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.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
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.
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
