More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
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.
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.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
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.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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
