Quotes from Erich Maria Remarque

It's a primary law of this world that the old rule the young, that one must serve mine's time. It is no question of ability. Else what would become of the old dodderers who cling to power?

Those voices mean more than my life, more than mothering and fear, they are the strongest and most protective thing that there is; they are the voices of my pals.

To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.

Ja sam moderan ?ovek i vrlo sam sklon samouništenju.

Er war nicht töricht genug, nicht an Zufälle zu glauben. Keine Zufälle gab es nur in guter Literatur – das Leben war täglich voll der albernsten.

All at once I feel utterly dejected. "What was the good of it all, Mother?" I say. She strokes my hand. "It must have been for some good, Ernst. The Father in heaven knows, you may be sure of that.

Where do flies go in winter?

Why doesn't she stop worrying? Kemmerich will stay dead whether she knows about it or not. When a man has seen so many dead he cannot understand any longer why there should be so much anguish over a single individual.

Er war in der Stimmung eines Menschen, der nachmittags geschlafen hat und es nicht gewohnt ist – herausgefallen aus allen Beziehungen und reif für einen raschen, sinnlosen Selbstmord.

The blonde girl twitters: "Bread—good——

Don't lose the address," he said to Bucher. "Be a pity if we lost touch with one another.

Baudi dz?vi un dom? tikai tad, kad tas ir nepieciešams. [..] Kad j?pelna nauda vai gribi tikt dz?v? uz priekšu.

Lepe su te žene koje nas spre?avaju u tome da postanemo polubogovi, prave?i od nas o?eve porodica, gra?ane, ljude koji zara?uju novac, pošto su nas pre toga uhvatile iluzijom da nas ?ine bogovima.

Yes, I think bitterly, that's how it is with us, and with all poor people. They don't dare ask the price, but worry themselves dreadfully beforehand about it; but the others, for whom it is not important, they settle the price first as a matter of course.

Vientul?ba mekl? ce?abiedru un nejaut?, kas vi?š ir. Kurš to nezina, nekad nav bijis vientu?š, bet tikai viens.

The dark turns into madness. It rocks and rages. Dark things, darker than the night itself, rush upon us in great waves, over us and onwards.

Ma il suo nome è un chiodo che si pianterà in me e non si potrà strappare mai più.

Ta?u laikam gan ir t?, ka atseviš?a cilv?ka n?ve vienm?r ir n?ve, bet divu miljonu n?ve - vienm?r tikai statistika.

Memory is a deadly disease for a refugee; it's his cancer of the soul.

Dem Soldaten ist sein Magen und seine Verdauung ein vertrauteres Gebiet als jedem anderen Menschen

On sekiz ya??nda idik; dünyay?, hayat? sevmeye baÅŸlam??t?k, sevdiÄŸimiz bu ÅŸeylere kurÅŸun s?kmak zorunda kald?k. Patlayan ilk mermiler kalbimize sapland?. Çal??ma, çaba, ilerleme kap?lar? kapand? bize. Biz bunlara art?k inanm?yoruz, biz harbe inan?yoruz.

Wir haben den Sinn für andere Zusammenhänge verloren, weil sie künstlich sind. Nur die Tatsachen sind richtig und wichtig für uns.

Then what exactly is the war for?" asks Tjaden. Kat shrugs his shoulders. "There must be some people to whom the war is useful.

Zuerst erstaunt, dann erbittert und schließlich gleichgültig erkannten wir, daß nicht der Geist ausschlaggebend zu sein schien, sondern die Wichsbürste, nicht der Gedanke, sondern das System, nicht die Freiheit, sondern der Drill