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I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.
Erich Maria Remarque -
-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
Erich Maria Remarque
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To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Erich Maria Remarque -
What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
Erich Maria Remarque -
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 -
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Erich Maria Remarque -
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 -
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
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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 -
Our knowledge of life is limited to death.
Erich Maria Remarque -
The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it.
Erich Maria Remarque