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
museums perfect
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
strange complicated feels
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
waiting terrible
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
world moments cigarette
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
simple secret important
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
matter enough made
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
dream bears our-dreams
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
way generations world
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.
rewards modesty novel
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
mankind prize
... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
kissing today littles
Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
jealous doe chance
Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.
may knows
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
brother dying disease
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.