Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark, was a German novelist who created many works about the terror of war. His best known novel All Quiet on the Western Front, about German soldiers in the First World War, was made into an Oscar-winning movie. His book made him an enemy of the Nazis, who burned many of his works...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 June 1898
CountryGermany
youth adornment
Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
names phoenix miracle
The miracle has passed me by; it has touched but not changed me; I still have the same name and I know I will probably bear it until the end of my days; I am no phoenix; resurrection is not for me; I have tried to fly but I am tumbling like a dazzled, awkward rooster back to earth, back behind the barbed wires.
heaven
Heaven Has No Favorites
eye hands years
Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me." -All Quiet On The Western Front, Chapter 12
rain school light
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.
adventure blood firsts
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
gone impatience filled
Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.
shame rage knows
My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
clothes comforting sometimes
... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
years purpose march
The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us:—against whom, against whom?
dream sweet gun
Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
ideas mind quiet
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
skins someone-you-love comfort
What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
common possibility trenches
Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.