Erich Maria Remarque quotes - page 2

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love! (Erich Maria Remarque)
Our knowledge of life is limited to death. View quote
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Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today- when it meant so little. View quote
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No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck. View quote
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming. View quote
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We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here. View quote
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The things men did or felt they had to do. View quote
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. View quote
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We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. View quote
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world. View quote
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We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out...we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night...and thus we wait for morning. (Erich Maria Remarque)
-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it. View quote
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. View quote
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The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. View quote
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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well. View quote
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Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without. View quote
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Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain. View quote
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I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty. View quote
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That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years. View quote
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They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades. View quote
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Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. (Erich Maria Remarque)
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future. View quote
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On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square. View quote
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The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off. View quote
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It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by short people. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows. View quote
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