Quotes from Erich Maria Remarque

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

Die Schwierigkeit mit dem Krieg ist, dass die Leute, die ihn wollen, nicht erwarten, in ihm zu sterben. Und die Schwierigkeit mit unserer Erinnerung ist, dass sie vergisst und verändert und verfälscht, um zu überleben. Sie macht den Tod zu einem Abenteuer, wenn der Tod dich verfehlt. Aber der Tod ist kein Abenteuer: Töten ist der Sinn des Krieges, - nicht Überleben.

?tii ceva, Fritz, femeile sunt, totuÈ™i, mult mai bune decât noi. -Cum ai descoperit deodat? aÈ™a ceva? -Nu È™tiu nici eu.Cea mai bun? dovad? este iubirea.La b?rbat ea înseamn? mai mult dorin??, la femeie, mai degrab? sacrificiu.La b?rbat intr? în joc vanitatea, la femeie, nevoia de ocrotire.M? gândesc la femeia adev?rat?, nu la femeiuÈ™ti.

I tell you it is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war.

We are little flames, inadequately sheltered by thin walls from the tempest of dissolution and insensibility in which we flicker and often are all but extinguished.

Leer inleyerek kolunun üzerine yaslan?yor. Öyle bir kan?yor ki elimizden gelen yok. BoÅŸalan bir tüp gibi, birkaç dakika içinde çöküverdi. Okulda, matematikte birinci oluÅŸunun ÅŸimdi ona ne yarar? var ki?

Iubirea este o be?ie.Nu a sim?urilor, ci a sufletelor.

O leg?tur? spiritual-sufleteasc? de maxim? intensitate, concretizat? fizic-iat? ce înseamn? iubirea...

We find one man who has held the artery of his arm in his teeth for two hours in order not to bleed to death.

Because none can ever wholly feel what another suffers—is that the reason why wars perpetually recur?

Sonra da yerimizi deÄŸiÅŸtiriyor ve ka??t oynamak üzere bir baÅŸka yere postu seriyoruz. Çünkü yapabileceÄŸimiz üç iÅŸ var: Ka??t oynamak, küfretmek ve savaÅŸmak. Yirmi yaÅŸ için pek fazla say?lmaz. Ya da pek fazla...

Iubirea înseamn? contopirea suprem?, egoismul maxim în d?ruirea cea mai profund? a sinelui È™i tot ce ai.

Üçümüz de ayn? ÅŸeyi düÅŸünüyoruz: Franz Kemmerich buradan saÄŸ ç?ksa bile tek bacakl? kalaca??na göre bu çizmeler ne iÅŸe yarar?

Egoismul este un mare defect.Nimeni nu vrea s? fie egoist ?i cu toate astea,to?i sunt egoi?ti.

Aber niemand hat uns in der Schule beigebracht, wie man bei Regen und Sturm eine Zigarette anzündet, wie man ein Feuer aus nassem Holz machen kann - oder dass man ein Bajonett am besten in den Bauch stösst, weil es da nicht festklemmt wie bei den Rippen.

Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.

we were being trained to be heroes the way they train circus horses, and we quickly got used to it.

Ein Befehl hat diese stillen Gestalten zu unsern Feinden gemacht; ein Befehl könnte sie in unsere Freunde verwandeln. An irgendeinem Tisch wird ein Schriftstück von einigen Leuten unterzeichnet, die keiner von uns kennt, und jahrelang ist unser höchstes Ziel das, worauf sonst die Verachtung der Welt und ihre höchste Strafe ruht.

SimÈ›irea înseamn? totul.SimÈ›irea lipsit? de cuvinte È™i imagine,liniÈ™tea profund?.

He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

Omul tân?r tinde cu toat? f?ptura spre zenitul vieÈ›ii.Drumul duce înc? în sus.Când ajunge pe culme È™i o porneÈ™ti pe drumul care duce în jos È™i z?reÈ™ti valea cufundat? în umbrele înser?rii, gândul morÈ›ii îÈ›i devine mai familiar.

I nod and wonder what to say to encourage him. His lips have fallen away, his mouth has become larger, his teeth stick out and look as though they were made of chalk. The flesh melts, the forehead bulges more prominently, the cheekbones protrude. The skeleton is working itself through. The eyes are already sunken in. In a couple of hours it will be over.

Tas ir sav?di: pien?kuma apzi?a cilv?kam ir pirms divdesmit pieciem un p?c tr?sdesmit pieciem gadiem; pirmaj? reiz? aiz ide?lisma, v?l?k aiz praktiskiem apsv?rumiem. - Pa vidu ir untumu un neapr??in?mu ideju laiks.

Hai ragione: non siamo più giovani, non ci interessa più dare l'assalto al mondo. Siamo dei profughi, fuggiamo da noi stessi. Avevamo diciott'anni, e cominciavamo ad amare il mondo e l'esistenza: ci hanno costretti a spararle contro. La prima granata ci ha colpiti al cuore. Siamo esclusi ormai dall'attività, dal lavoro, dal progresso, non ci crediamo più. Crediamo alla guerra.