Erich Maria Remarque citations

„Je voulais dire quelque chose, mais je n'y parvins pas. C'est difficile de trouver des mots lorsqu'on a quelque chose à dire.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

„C'est vraiment honteux d'aller et venir sur la terre et de ne presque rien savoir d'elle… Pas même quelques noms.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

„Ce n'est qu'en se retrouvant toujours seul qu'on connaît le bonheur d'être ensemble.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

„Ce qu'on laisse approcher, on veut le retenir. Et on ne peut rien retenir.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

„On devient mélancolique lorsqu'on pense à la vie… cynique lorsqu'on voit ce qu'en font la plupart des gens.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

„We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

„The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre The Black Obelisk

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)

„Love should not be polluted with friendship.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

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

„It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

„Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre The Black Obelisk

Source: The Black Obelisk

„Anything you can settle with money is cheap.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

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

„Our knowledge of life is limited to death“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

„With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

„They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

„We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

„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.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

„It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre 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.

„Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

„It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, livre Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades