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“… but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.”

Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk

Source: The Black Obelisk

“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: 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.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

“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.”

Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk

Source: The Black Obelisk

“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.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

“I don’t want to get old.”
“You won’t get old. Life will pass over your face, that will be all, and it will become more beautiful. One is old only when one no longer feels.”
“No. When one no longer loves.”

Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist

Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“I am a modern man with a strong tendency to self-destruction.”

Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk

Source: The Black Obelisk

“What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!”

Erich Maria Remarque book The Night in Lisbon

Source: The Night in Lisbon

“Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

“Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

“Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

“The things men did or felt they had to do.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

“You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

“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.”

Erich Maria Remarque book Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.”

Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist

Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.”

Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk

Source: The Black Obelisk

“No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”

Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist

“At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

“I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.”

Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk

Source: The Black Obelisk

“Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.”

Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk

Source: The Black Obelisk