“ What’s going on outside, Ravic?” “Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide and at the same time deluding itself about what it’s doing.” “Will there be war?” “Everyone knows t… Erich Maria Remarque
“ Here I sit and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it. Erich Maria Remarque
“ We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so. It is not their way to protest what they already know. When my mother says to me "dear boy," it mea… Erich Maria Remarque
“ When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind. Erich Maria Remarque
“ The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark… Erich Maria Remarque
“ There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orders, instructions, duties, commands— and finally the many-headed monster, morale, necessity, hard rea… Erich Maria Remarque
“ If only they would not look at one so-What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger than a man's thumb-in their eyes! Erich Maria Remarque
“ Our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life Erich Maria Remarque
“ We developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms. Erich Maria Remarque
“ The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being scraped along the spine. Our legs won't function, our hands are trembling and our bodies are like thi… Erich Maria Remarque
“ And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantment of visions that crowd in on each other, just how fragile a handhold, how tenuous a boundary separ… Erich Maria Remarque
“ Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years;--and yet too much for twenty years. Erich Maria Remarque
“ And be very careful at the front, Paul.”Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are! Erich Maria Remarque
“ He wants me to tell him about the front; he is curious in a way that I find stupid and distressing; I no longer have any real contact with him. There is nothing he likes more than just hearing about i… Erich Maria Remarque
“ And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death. Erich Maria Remarque
“ There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they let us down so badly. …in our hearts we trusted t… Erich Maria Remarque
“ I glance at my boots. They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up one looks well-built and powerful in those great drainpipes. But when we go bathing and strip, suddenl… Erich Maria Remarque
“ We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school. We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhauer. At fi… Erich Maria Remarque
“ This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generat… Erich Maria Remarque
