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Three Comrades QUOTES

Three Comrades QUOTES

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

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

2 " 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

3 " The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

4 " To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

5 " There had never been any more between us than
chance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtedness
and binds closer than much else "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

6 " 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. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

7 " Nad ei taha poliitikat. Nad tahavad usu aseainet. /--/ Nad tahavad jälle kedagi uskuda. Mida, on täitsa ükskõik. Sellepärast nad ongi nii fanaatilised. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

8 " Pärast sõja lõppu pole enam mingit rahu olnud. Ja ometi ei tahtnud meist keegi midagi muud peale rahu. Meeletu maailm! "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

9 " From this day forth I place
dressmakers above philosophers. Those people bring beauty
into life, and that's worth a hundred times the most unfathomable meditations. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

10 " Be meilės žmogus - tik atostogaujantis lavonas. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

11 " I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

12 " 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. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

13 " Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

14 " I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

15 " Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

16 " It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

17 " 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. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

18 " It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

19 " 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. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades

20 " I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems. "

― Erich Maria Remarque , Three Comrades