Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

One always expects something else.

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again— words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

My healthy blood was powerless to cure the sick blood of my beloved. That was beyond understanding. And so is death.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

“We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.”

“Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.”

“Its only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”

“Может быть, у смерти совсем другое имя. Мы ведь видим ее всегда только с одной стороны. Может быть, смерть - это совершенная любовь между нами и Богом.”