Erich Maria Remarque quotes

" Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. " # Quotations # Museums and Galleries # Perfection

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

" 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. " # Quotations # Love # Age and Aging

" I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. " # Quotations # Opportunity # Love

" A hospital alone shows what war is. " # Quotations # Hospitals # War

" American Novel: A story in which two people want each other from the beginning but don't get each other until the end of the book. French Novel: A story in which the two people get together right at the beginning, but from then until the end of the book they don't want each other any more. Russian Novel: A story in which the two people don't want each other or get each other-- and for 800 pages brood about it. " # Quotations # Books - Reading # America