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
mankind prize
... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
settling
Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
mirrors giving behinds
Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
veterans-day believe soldier
No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
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.
skins someone-you-love comfort
What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
mirrors world
Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
missing may fool
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.
brain
Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
sleep army expression
He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.
human perhaps towards
They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.
anyway far life wait war
Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.