More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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.
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.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
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.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
