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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