Erich Maria Remarque Inspirational Quotes (55)

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness--I belong to them and they to me we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.