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
dream bears our-dreams
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.
real sadness profound
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.
kissing today littles
Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
lying thinking giving
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.
world moments cigarette
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
way generations world
But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.
simple secret important
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
waiting terrible
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
strange complicated feels
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
museums perfect
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.