Erich Maria Remarque Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future. All Quiet on the Western Front

2. It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for. Three Comrades

3. 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. Three Comrades

4. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. All Quiet on the Western Front

5. We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth. Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

6. - Никогда, Робби, не стремись знать слишком много! Чем меньше знаешь, тем проще живется. Знание делает человека свободным, но и несчастным. Давай выпьем за наивность, за глупость и все, что к ним относится - за любовь, за веру в будущее, за мечты о счастье - за божественную глупость, за потерянный рай... Three Comrades

7. - Ты хочешь знать, как быть, если сделал что-то не так? Отвечаю, детка: никогда не проси прощения. Ничего не говори. Посылай цветы. Без писем. Только цветы. Они покрывают все. Даже могилы. Three Comrades

8. A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it! Flotsam

9. She was very beautiful and he felt he loved her. She was not beautiful as a state or a picture is beautiful; she was beautiful as a meadow across which the wind blows. It was life that pulsed in her and that had formed her into what she was. Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

10. Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world. Flotsam

11. There is no guilt in feelings ever. Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

12. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it! Flotsam