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Erich Maria Remarque QUOTES

Erich Maria Remarque QUOTES

1 " A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it! "

― Erich Maria Remarque , A Time to Love and a Time to Die

2 " Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it! "

― Erich Maria Remarque , A Time to Love and a Time to Die

3 " Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front

4 " 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. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front

5 " The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front

6 " Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mnogo iskustva. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , The Night in Lisbon

7 " It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

8 " 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. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

9 " Our knowledge of life is limited to death "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front

10 " Может быть, у смерти совсем другое имя. Мы ведь видим ее всегда только с одной стороны. Может быть, смерть - это совершенная любовь между нами и Богом. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , The Black Obelisk

11 " It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Flotsam

12 " A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Flotsam

13 " Love should not be polluted with friendship. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

14 " I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front

15 " But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front

16 " We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front

17 " How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front

18 " We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front

19 " Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front

20 " A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, a single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front