The quotations of

Erich Maria Remarque

German-born novelist

1898–1970

6 quotes, most often on War & Peace and Enemies.

We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter VIn context
- War & Peace
- Youth
It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours’ bombardment unscathed. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter VIIn context
- Luck
- War & Peace
A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Enemies
- War & Peace
Why do they never tell us that you are just poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony⁠—. Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter IXIn context
- Enemies
- War & Peace
A hospital alone shows what war is.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter XIn context
- Health
- War & Peace
He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter XIIIn context
- War & Peace

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