33 Impressive Quotes From Erich Maria Remarque

The German writer Erich Maria Remarque lived during the First World War. This condition made his being an even more sensitive one, he developed a highly vulnerable soul and that favored a very special, wonderful human talent.

His work in all of his books and writings is based on personal perceptions of the environment and authentic feelings – everything that he could observe, see and feel with his breathtakingly beautiful eyes and sensitive heart.

We can see from his books that love was a feeling full of passion for him and of great importance for his life and existence . He shares with us the idea that war is a devastating act that generally affects and affects the will, faith and fate of every single human being. In his work, he primarily deals with the topic of the lost generation in the time of war and it is also about all those who did not have to experience the tragedies of a war.

“Life is very dangerous. Not because of the people who do evil, but because of those who sit down to watch. “

Albert Einstein

Today I would like to invite you to enjoy the most impressive sentences from Erich Maria Remarque’s books “Three Comrades”, “Arc de Triomphe”, “Nothing New in the West”   and “Heaven has no minions”  . In this way you can partake of this wise heart of this unique writer.

•  “No,” he said quickly. “Stay friends? No. Grow a little garden over the lava of dead emotions? No, this is not for us. The same thing happens after a little affair, and it doesn’t end well. You don’t sully love with friendship. What’s over is over. “

• No one could be stranger to you than the person you loved in the past.
• What an idiot a person becomes when he really loves! How quickly he loses confidence! And what is he still feeling? All of the experience he has made evaporates like smoke in the air and he feels enormously insecure.
• Only those who have been alone many times know the happiness bestowed by meeting their beloved wife.
• Love doesn’t need explanations, it needs action.
• Every love wants to last forever, and that is its eternal storm.
• Only when you finally break up with someone do you begin to find real interest in everything that worries them. That is one of the paradoxical sides of love.
• Only those who know sadness can acknowledge happiness. Those who are happy know nothing of the joy of living more intensely than a mannequin who only pretends to be something.

• The light doesn’t shine when everything is lit, it just stands out in the dark.
• Talking about bliss takes no more than 5 minutes. There is nothing more to say except that you are happy. And people talk about all this misfortune all night long.
• A person is only really happy if he is not looking at the clock and is not driven by fear. Because even when you’re scared, you have to laugh. What else do we have to do?
• Happiness is the least defined and the most costly in life.
• The most beautiful city in the world is the one where you are happy.
• If a person does not run away, he is stronger than his destiny.
• The more primitive the human being, the more it believes in itself.

• “Nothing is lost yet!”  I repeated to myself. “You can only lose a person when he dies.”
• The greatest personalities have cynics, the most intolerant and idealistic people. Doesn’t that seem a little strange to you?
• The less you brag, the more valuable you are.
• It is wrong to assume that everyone has the same ability to feel.
• If you want people to ignore something, then don’t be careful.
• Think of one thing: you will never, ever, never again, ever feel ridiculous doing something for a woman.
• The woman doesn’t have to tell the man that she loves him. This is what her bright and happy eyes tell him. They say more than a thousand words.
• You have to adore a woman or let her go. Everything else is a lie.

• An old saying goes that when a woman is taken, she is five times more desirable than a woman you can conquer.
• A woman is not a piece of metal furniture, she is a flower. You don’t need any formalities. She needs warm and kind words. It is better to say something nice to her every day than to desire her frenetically and with a meaningless look for a lifetime.
• I was by her side, I listened to her, I laughed and thought how terrible it feels to love a woman and be poor.
• What is out of reach is always more attractive than what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.
• They say the hardest part is living the first 60 years. After that everything would get better.
• Life is a ship that has so many sails that it could tip over at any time.

• Nothing is more useful than repentance. You can’t regret anything. You can’t correct anything. If we could, we would all be saints. Life never aimed for us to be perfect. Those who are perfect should be exhibited in a museum.
• Sometimes you have to break your principles or they won’t bring you any pleasure.
• Better to die with the joy of life than just live to the day you die.
• Come what may, just don’t take it too seriously. Few things are important for a long time.

“Life was not made to understand it, but to live it.”

George Santayana