More Quotes by 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.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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.
Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
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.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
