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Erich Maria Remarque Quotes: 7

  • It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

    Three Comrades
  • Our knowledge of life is limited to death

    All Quiet on the Western Front
  • - Никогда, Робби, не стремись знать слишком много! Чем меньше знаешь, тем проще живется. Знание делает человека свободным, но и несчастным. Давай выпьем за наивность, за глупость и все, что к ним относится - за любовь, за веру в будущее, за мечты о счастье - за божественную глупость, за потерянный рай...

    Three Comrades
  • For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

    All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

    All Quiet on the Western Front
  • A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!

    Flotsam: A Novel of World War II
  • A man has to have something he can put faith in. Can't you see that? What I want is someone that will love me; she would have me and I her. Otherwise a man may just go hang himself

    The Road Back