Author of quotes: Erich Maria Remarque. Page 2

I wanted to merge with her, to enter into her blood and flesh - and I could not.

But this was not enough for me, I desperately longed to own her even more, even more completely. But as soon as I let her go, we again became two people, two different people.

I will act like the German Empire: spend money without having it.

Never before has life been so precious as it is today, when it is worth so little.

Happiness, - said Schwartz. - How it shrinks in memory! Like cheap fabric when washed. Only trouble counts.

The strange change that began shortly after the armistice continues. The war, which almost all the soldiers in 1918 hated, for those who survived safely, gradually turned into the greatest event in life. They returned to everyday existence, which seemed to them, when they were still lying in the trenches and cursing the war, some kind of paradise. Now everyday life has come again with their worries and troubles, and the war is remembered as something vague, distant, obsolete, and therefore, against their will, it looks completely different, it is tinted and replaced. The massacre was presented as an adventure from which it was possible to emerge unscathed. Calamities are forgotten, grief is enlightened, and the death that spared you has become what it almost always happens in life - something abstract, already unreal. It is a reality only when it hits someone very close by or reaches out to us.

- It's true, - continued Ravik. - Especially at night. Night - it exaggerates everything.

Old as the world, ordinary night despair - rolls along with the darkness and disappears with it.

Do you think people who write about paintings understand them? I'm revealing a secret to you: you can't write about paintings at all. Just like art in general. They write only for one purpose - to enlighten the ignorant. You can't write about art. It can only be felt.

- You won't succeed. You think that I am wasting money, and I believe that you are wasting your life.

- There is nothing to forgive in love.

“Then it’s even more dangerous,” replied Clerfe. - Because the person becomes frivolous.

We are doomed to die. But we are not alone. Others too! Everything! Everything! The only difference is that we know about it, while others do not.

Germans are not a nation of revolutionaries. They were a nation of executors. The order replaced their conscience. This has become their favorite excuse. Whoever acted under the order, in their opinion, did not bear any responsibility.