Erich Maria Remarque citations

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

Source: Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 6
Contexte: It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dugout I might have been smashed to atoms, and in the open survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier survives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Source: The Night in Lisbon

Source: Three Comrades

Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.
Der schwarze Obelisk (1956)
A variant of this quote "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic." has also been attributed to Joseph Stalin, but no source for this has been found. This version appeared in the English press not later than 1958. (Ремарк, Эрих Мария // Словарь современных цитат / составитель К. В. Душенко — Москва: изд-во «Эксмо», 2006)

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

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

Source: The Black Obelisk

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: Three Comrades

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

Source: Three Comrades