“ The story of the herd of seals. Hundreds of them on a beach; among them the hunter killing one after the other with a club. Together they could easily have crushed him— but they lay there, watching hi… Erich Maria Remarque
“ A miracle is never perfect when it happens, there are always little disappointments. But once it’s gone for good and nothing can change it, memory could make it perfect and then it would never change.… Erich Maria Remarque
“ He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man needed few things to live. And it was good not to get used to many things when life was unsettled. Aga… Erich Maria Remarque
“ There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else Erich Maria Remarque
“ These memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow-- a vast, inapprehensible melancholy. Once we had such desires-- but they return not. They are past, they belong to another world… Erich Maria Remarque
“ To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. Erich Maria Remarque
“ Actually, what does man live for?” “To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die just when he has done that and has become a bit more sensible?” “Some people die without having become… Erich Maria Remarque
“ The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days. Erich Maria Remarque
“ He’s afraid," Graber said."Yes, naturally. But he’s a good dog.""And a man-eater.""We’re all that.""Why?""We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are loo… Erich Maria Remarque
“ Below there are cyclists, lorries, men; it is a grey street and a grey subway;—it affects me as though it were my mother. Erich Maria Remarque
“ And so everything is new and brave, red poppies and good food, cigarettes and summer breeze. Erich Maria Remarque
“ Close behind us were our friends: Tjaden, a skinny locksmith of our own age, the biggest eater of the company. He sits down to eat as thin as a grasshopper and gets up as big as a bug in the family wa… Erich Maria Remarque
“ We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out. Erich Maria Remarque
“ The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be,… Erich Maria Remarque
