Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy.

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.

My healthy blood was powerless to cure the sick blood of my beloved. That was beyond understanding. And so is death.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again— words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!