More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque
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.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
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.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
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.
