He is one of those who have been called writers of the “lost generation”. This is a group of young people who went through the horrors of the First World War and saw the post-war world in a different way from the trenches.
The writer rarely commented on his own work and preferred to let his books speak for themselves.
appropriate and relevant quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
about love
- “It is only when you finally separate from a person that you begin to take a real interest in everything that concerns him. That is one of the paradoxes of love.”
- “The greatest hatred is for those who have managed to touch the heart and then spit on the soul.”
- “No man can become more of a stranger than the one you loved in the past.”
- “I stood beside her, listened to her, laughed, and thought what a terrible thing it is to love a woman and be poor.”
- “A woman gets smarter with love, but a man loses his head.”
- “Only he who has been alone more than once knows the happiness of meeting his beloved.”
- “Love doesn’t tolerate explanations. “It needs action.
- “All love wants to be eternal. That is its eternal torment.”
- “The less ego a man has, the more he’s worth.”
- “When you find your own, you don’t even want to look at the other.”
about life
- “Only a fool wins in life. And the clever one sees only obstacles everywhere, and before he can start something, he has already lost confidence in himself.”
- “What you can’t have always seems better than what you have. That is the romance and idiocy of human life.”
- “As long as a man does not give up, he is stronger than his fate.”
- “And whatever happens to you – don’t take anything to heart. Few things in the world are important for long.”
- “They say the hardest thing to live is the first seventy years. And after that, things get better.”
- “It’s better to die when you want to live than to live until you want to die.”
- “Life is a boat with a lot of sails, so it can capsize at any moment.”
- “Remorse is the most useless thing in the world. You can’t take anything back. Nothing can be undone. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life was not meant to make us perfect. He who is perfect belongs in a museum.”
- “Principles have to be broken sometimes, otherwise there’s no joy in them.”
- “As long as one lives-nothing is lost.”
about happiness
- “One can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. You can’t say anything here except that you are happy. And people talk about unhappiness all night long.”
- “The best city is where one is happy.”
- “And whatever happens to you – don’t take anything to heart. Few things in the world last long enough to be important.”
- “It’s a fabulous happiness to lie there and think of nothing…”
- “Happiness is the most unidentified and expensive thing in the world.”
- “Only cows are happy these days.”
- “Only the unhappy know what happiness is. A happy man experiences the joy of life no more than a mannequin does: he only demonstrates it.”
- “In fact, a man is only truly happy when he pays the least attention to time and when he is not driven by fear. And yet, even if you are driven by fear, you can laugh. What else is there to do?”
- “Money does not bring happiness, but it is extremely soothing.”
- “The more stupid things you do, the luckier you get.”
