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“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

“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

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

“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

“It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.”

Erich Maria Remarque book Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony—Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Paul to the corpse of a French man he has just killed, Ch. 9
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Context: I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

“Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.”

Erich Maria Remarque book Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.”

Erich Maria Remarque book Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“Why does a man live?
-In order to think about it…”

Erich Maria Remarque

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

“To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.”

Erich Maria Remarque book Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front