Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

Erich Maria Remarque

• Silence
• Rain
• Storm
• Confusion
• Wounded

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• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Rain

• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Rain
  • Short
  • Forest

• Silence is also conversation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Silence
  • Conversation
  • Also

• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • Change
  • Sea

• If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Sad
  • Rain
  • Impact

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Stop
  • Best

• It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Funny
  • News

• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Looks
  • Rain
  • Face

• The rain begins with a single drop.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Single
  • Rain
  • Drop

• I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Movie
  • Voice
  • Rain

• We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Silence

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Love
  • Silence
  • Listen

• A little rain will fillThe lily's cup which hardly moists the field.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Sky

• Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

  

  William Odom
  • War
  • Way
  • Minutes

• If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

  

  David Deida
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Truth

• If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.

  

  Trip Hawkins
  • Entrepreneur
  • Change
  • Culture

• The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Silence
  • Rain
  • Storm