Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark, was a German novelist who created many works about the terror of war. His best known novel All Quiet on the Western Front, about German soldiers in the First World War, was made into an Oscar-winning movie. His book made him an enemy of the Nazis, who burned many of his works...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 June 1898
CountryGermany
men arms want
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 were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
years silence sorrow
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.
jealous doe chance
Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.
settling
Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
brother dying disease
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.
love-life storm fleeing
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.
mankind prize
... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
war book adventure
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.
may knows
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
rewards modesty novel
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
memories secret littles
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
crazy eye sky
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.
matter enough made
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.