More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
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.
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.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
