Remark phrases. The best quotes about love from remark books

Remarque was an incredible person, he was an intellectual with a vulnerable soul and great talent, which he did not recognize. The writer’s life was not easy, because at a fairly young age he went to war, where he was seriously wounded. The Nazis burned his texts, and relationships with women were painful and quite painful for him. The experiences that life gave him left a huge imprint on his work. Love and war are the main themes of his books. He wrote about passionate and piercing love, about war as a terrible and destructive fate for many, about the lost generation of survivors of the horrors of war.

We have selected the most inspiring, penetrating and simply best quotes from Remarque's books. “Three Comrades”, “Arc de Triomphe”, “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Life on Borrow”, in each of these novels, Remarque put all his life experience and his heart that had gone through a lot.

About life

1. Repentance is the most useless thing in the world. Nothing can be returned. Nothing can be fixed. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life didn't mean to make us perfect. Anyone who is perfect belongs in a museum.
2. They say the first seventy years are the hardest to live. And then things will go smoothly.
3. Life is a sailboat with too many sails, so it can capsize at any moment.
4. What you can't get always seems better than what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.
5. Principles must sometimes be violated, otherwise there is no joy in them.
6. And no matter what happens to you, don’t take anything to heart. Few things in the world remain important for long.
7. It is better to die when you want to live than to live until you want to die.
8. The greatest hatred arises for those who managed to touch the heart and then spat into the soul.
9. Whoever is ready to let go with a smile, they try to hold him.

Oh happiness

1. You can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. There is nothing to say here except that you are happy. And people talk about misfortune all night long.
2. Only cows are happy these days.
3. Only an unhappy person knows what happiness is. A happy person feels the joy of life no more than a mannequin: he only demonstrates this joy, but it is not given to him. The light doesn't shine when it's light. He shines in the darkness.
4. In fact, a person is truly happy only 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 left to do?
5. The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.
6. Happiness is the most uncertain and expensive thing in the world.

About love

1. Only if you finally break up with a person do you begin to be truly interested in everything that concerns him. This is one of the paradoxes of love.
2. No person can become more of a stranger than someone you loved in the past.
3. What can one person give to another except a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let him in, you’ll want to hold him. And nothing can be held back...
4. Human life is too long for love alone. It's just too long. Love is wonderful. But one of the two always gets bored. And the other one is left with nothing. He freezes and waits for something... He waits like crazy...
5. Only those who have been alone more than once know the happiness of meeting their beloved.
6. Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs actions.
7. “No,” he said quickly. - Not this. Stay friends? Plant a small garden on the cooled lava of faded feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This only happens after small affairs, and even then it turns out rather false. Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end"
8. All love wants to be eternal. This is her eternal torment.
9. A woman becomes wiser from love, but a man loses his head.
10. How clumsy a person becomes when he truly loves! How quickly his self-confidence flies away! And how lonely he seems to himself; all his vaunted experience suddenly dissipates like smoke, and he feels so insecure.

About the woman

1. Women don’t need to explain anything; you always need to act with them.
2. Remember one thing, boy: you will never, never, never again be funny in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her sake.
3. Women should either be idolized or abandoned. Everything else is a lie.
4. It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about this. They speak louder than any words.
5. If a woman belongs to another, she is five times more desirable than one who can be had—an old rule.
6. I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how scary it is to love a woman and be poor.
7. A woman is not metal furniture; she is a flower. She doesn't want to be businesslike. She needs sunny, sweet words. It’s better to say something nice to her every day than to work for her all your life with gloomy frenzy.

About a human

1. The more primitive a person is, the higher his opinion of himself.
2. It is a mistake to assume that all people have the same ability to feel.
3. There is nothing more tiring than being present when a person demonstrates his intelligence. Especially if you have no mind.
4. “Nothing is lost yet,” I repeated. “You only lose a person when he dies.”
5. If you want people not to notice anything, you don’t have to be careful.
6. Cynics have the easiest character, idealists have the most intolerable character. Don't you think this is strange?
7. The less self-esteem a person has, the more he is worth.
8. As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his destiny.

A selection of the best quotes from Remarque’s books “Three Comrades”, “Arc de Triomphe”, “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Life on Borrow”. Each of these novels contains the entire life experience and heart of a famous German writer.

1. “No,” he said quickly. - Not this. Stay friends? Plant a small garden on the cooled lava of faded feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This only happens after small affairs, and even then it turns out rather false. Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end."

2. No person can become more of a stranger than someone you loved in the past.

3. What can one person give to another, except a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let him in, you’ll want to hold him. And nothing can be held back...

4. How strange are young people today? You hate the past, you despise the present, and you are indifferent to the future. This is unlikely to lead to a good ending.

5. Human life is too long for love alone. It's just too long. Love is wonderful. But one of the two always gets bored. And the other one is left with nothing. He freezes and waits for something... He waits like crazy...

6. Only those who have been alone more than once know the happiness of meeting their beloved.
7. Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs actions.

8. All love wants to be eternal. This is her eternal torment.

9. A woman becomes wiser from love, but a man loses his head.

10. Only if you finally break up with a person do you begin to be truly interested in everything that concerns him. This is one of the paradoxes of love.

11. Only an unhappy person knows what happiness is. A happy person feels the joy of life no more than a mannequin: he only demonstrates this joy, but it is not given to him. The light doesn't shine when it's light. He shines in the darkness.

12. Only cows are happy these days.

13. You can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. There is nothing to say here except that you are happy. And people talk about misfortune all night long.

14. In fact, a person is truly happy only 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 left to do?

15. Loneliness is easier when you don't love.

16. The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.

17. There is no shame in being born a fool. But it’s a shame to die a fool.

18. The more primitive a person is, the higher his opinion of himself.

19. There is nothing more tiring than being present when a person demonstrates his intelligence. Especially if you have no mind.

20. “Nothing is lost yet,” I repeated. “You only lose a person when he dies.”

21. Reason is given to man so that he understands: it is impossible to live by reason alone.

22. Whoever wants to hold on loses. They try to hold on to those who are ready to let go with a smile.

23. The less pride a person has, the more he is worth.

24. It is a mistake to assume that all people have the same ability to feel.

25. If you want people not to notice anything, don’t be careful.

26. Remember one thing, boy: never, never and never again will you find yourself funny in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her sake.

27. It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about this. They speak louder than any words.

28. Women should either be idolized or abandoned. Everything else is a lie.

29. If a woman belongs to another, she is five times more desirable than the one that can be had - an old rule.

30. Women don’t need to explain anything; you always need to act with them.

31. A woman is not metal furniture; she is a flower. She doesn't want to be businesslike. She needs sunny, sweet words. It’s better to say something nice to her every day than to work for her all your life with gloomy frenzy.

32. I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how scary it is to love a woman and be poor.

33. What you can’t get always seems better than what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.

34. They say that the first seventy years are the hardest to live. And then things will go smoothly.

35. Life is a sailing boat with too many sails, so it can capsize at any moment.

36. Repentance is the most useless thing in the world. Nothing can be returned. Nothing can be fixed. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life didn't mean to make us perfect. Anyone who is perfect belongs in a museum.

37. Principles must sometimes be violated, otherwise there is no joy in them.

About people

As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his destiny.

The more primitive a person is, the higher his opinion of himself.

There is nothing more tiring than being present when a person demonstrates his intelligence. Especially if you have no mind.

“Nothing is lost yet,” I repeated. - You only lose a person when he dies.

Cynics have the easiest character, idealists have the most intolerable character. Don't you think this is strange?

The less self-esteem a person has, the more he is worth.

It is a mistake to assume that all people have the same ability to feel.

If you want people not to notice anything, you don’t have to be careful.

About love

“No,” he said quickly. - Not this. Stay friends? Plant a small garden on the cooled lava of faded feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This only happens after small affairs, and even then it turns out rather false. Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end"

No person can become more of a stranger than someone you loved in the past.

What can one person give to another except a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let him in, you’ll want to hold him. And nothing can be held back...

How clumsy a person becomes when he truly loves! How quickly his self-confidence flies away! And how lonely he seems to himself; all his vaunted experience suddenly dissipates like smoke, and he feels so insecure.

Human life is too long for love alone. It's just too long. Love is wonderful. But one of the two always gets bored. And the other one is left with nothing. He freezes and waits for something... He waits like crazy...

Only those who have been alone more than once know the happiness of meeting their beloved.

Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs actions.

All love wants to be eternal. This is her eternal torment.

A woman becomes wiser from love, but a man loses his head.

Only if you finally break up with a person do you begin to be truly interested in everything that concerns him. This is one of the paradoxes of love.

Oh happiness

Only an unhappy person knows what happiness is. A happy person feels the joy of life no more than a mannequin: he only demonstrates this joy, but it is not given to him. The light doesn't shine when it's light. He shines in the darkness.

Only cows are happy these days.

You can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. There is nothing to say here except that you are happy. And people talk about misfortune all night long.

In fact, a person is truly happy only 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 left to do?

Happiness is the most uncertain and expensive thing in the world.

The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.

About women

Remember one thing, boy: you will never, never, never again be funny in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her sake.

It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about this. They speak louder than any words.

Women should either be idolized or abandoned. Everything else is a lie.

If a woman belongs to another, she is five times more desirable than one who can be had - an old rule.

Women don’t need to explain anything; you always need to act with them.

A woman is not metal furniture; she is a flower. She doesn't want to be businesslike. She needs sunny, sweet words. It’s better to say something nice to her every day than to work for her all your life with gloomy frenzy.

I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how scary it is to love a woman and be poor.

About life

What you can't get always seems better than what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.

Quotes and Aphorisms 25.08.2017

Dear readers, we have heard the names of these books more than once - “All Quiet on the Western Front”, “Three Comrades”, “A Time to Live and a Time to Die”, “Black Obelisk”, “Life on Borrow”, “Shadows in Paradise”. They have already become stable expressions. And I am drawn to read and reread these and other works of the German writer Remarque, I want to repeat Remarque’s quotes. Films based on his novels still do not age. Why?

Trembling, tender, subtle and heartfelt, and at the same time broken, dramatic - this is exactly how the author wrote, and this is what immediately stuck in my mind and became one of the most appreciated.

An actor in a heroic play?

Remarque was born in Germany in 1898. Since 1916, he fought in the German army militia, but spent the end of the war in hospitals.

After the war, Remarque changed his middle name - from Erich Paul to Erich Maria in honor of his deceased mother. He worked as a teacher, a tombstone salesman, and as an organist in a chapel for the mentally ill. Later he became an editor at a magazine, and his talent as a writer gradually emerged. Remarque was a writer who was either greatly loved or fiercely hated. For example, the Nazis burned his books and persecuted him. Remarque left for Switzerland on time, but his sister did not make it and was executed in 1943.

But Remarque simply spoke with all sincerity about the “lost generation,” whose representatives did not find a place for themselves among those who were not in the terrible war. The book “All Quiet on the Western Front” is one of the big three novels dedicated to the “Lost Generation.” In the same year, 1929, “A Farewell to Arms!” was also published. Ernest Hemingway and "Death of a Hero" by Richard Aldington. At the same time, Remarque suffered from an inferiority complex and considered his success undeserved! He even received treatment for depression in the United States.

One of the deepest memories of Remarque was left by the daughter of actress Marlene Dietrich, Maria Riva. She wrote that Remarque resembled an actor from a heroic play, who always stands behind the scenes and waits for the right line. “But he wrote books whose male characters embodied all the forces that lay dormant in him, but never developed into a complete character,” noted Maria. “It was precisely his most charming qualities that were never destined to find their place in the portrait of a perfect man. It’s not that he didn’t know how to stand level with this portrait - he considered himself unworthy of such perfection.”

And yet, Remarque’s quotes and aphorisms immediately sink into the soul. After all, despite all the trials and disappointments, he believed in all-consuming love, which completely changes a person’s life: “If you and I created this world, it would look better, wouldn’t it?” I want to write quotes about love from the pages into a special notebook so that I can return to them regularly!

His specialty is also that he was attentive to detail. Quotes about life from Remarque’s works are succinct and vivid. Sometimes in the morning I remember this phrase: “Oddly enough, the smell of coffee made me cheerful... What is important and significant cannot calm me down. A little thing, a trifle, always consoles.” And here’s what comes to mind in the evening: “The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.”

Oh happiness

True happiness lies in friendship and love. But, communicating with comrades and a beautiful woman, a person does not think about how happy he is. He simply enjoys life and appreciates every moment. And it’s completely different when this happiness is taken away from him...

“Only the unhappy know what happiness is. A happy person feels the joy of life no more than a mannequin: he only demonstrates this joy, but it is not given to him. The light doesn't shine when it's light. He shines in the darkness."

“Only the cows are happy these days.”

“You can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. There is nothing to say here except that you are happy. And people talk about misfortune all night long.”

“In fact, a person is truly happy only 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 left to do?”

About the society

Do people really have something in common or is it just an illusion? Often a person is lonely and self-absorbed. Contemporaries are in constant search, often meaningless - this is what Remarque believed.

“The more people know about each other, the more misunderstandings they have. And the closer they come together, the more alien they become.”

“Pity is the most useless thing in the world... It is the other side of gloating, let it be known to you.”

“There is no shame in being born a fool. But it’s a shame to die a fool.”

“The more primitive a person is, the higher his opinion of himself.”

“How strange young people today are. You hate the past, you despise the present, and you are indifferent to the future. This is unlikely to lead to a good ending."

“There is nothing more tiring than being present when a person demonstrates his intelligence. Especially if you don’t have a mind.”

“Reason is given to man so that he understands: it is impossible to live by reason alone.”

“The less self-esteem a person has, the more he is worth.”

“It is a mistake to assume that all people have the same ability to feel.”

“If you don’t want people to notice anything, don’t be careful.”

“Repentance is the most useless thing in the world. Nothing can be returned. Nothing can be fixed. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life didn't mean to make us perfect. He who is perfect belongs in a museum.”

“It’s better to die when you want to live than to live until you want to die.”

“And, no matter what happens to you, don’t take anything to heart. Few things in the world remain important for long.”

“Indeed, everything is fine - whoever is lonely will not be abandoned.”

“It’s too late... It’s always too late. That’s just the way things are in life.”

About love

Love is a complex, multifaceted feeling, and sometimes it causes a lot of torment, but it also awakens very deep wisdom. This is exactly what Remarque’s quotes about love are like – bitter, but at the same time warm and bright. Remarque and his heroes were ready for feats in the name of this fragile romantic world of their love.

“There is no such thing as stupidity in love!”

“Not this. Stay friends? Plant a small garden on the cooled lava of faded feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This only happens after small affairs, and even then it turns out rather false. Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end."

“No person can become more of a stranger than someone you once loved.”

“What can one person give to another except a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let him in, you’ll want to hold him. But nothing can be held back..."

“Human life is too long for love alone. It's just too long. Love is wonderful. But one of the two always gets bored. And the other one is left with nothing. He freezes and waits for something... He waits like crazy..."

“Only those who have been alone more than once know the happiness of meeting their beloved.”

“Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs action."

“All love wants to be eternal. This is her eternal torment.”

“A woman grows wiser from love, but a man loses his head.”

“Only when you finally break up with a person do you begin to be truly interested in everything that concerns him. This is one of the paradoxes of love.”

“Loneliness is easier when you don’t love.”

“Whoever wants to hold on loses. They try to keep those who are ready to let go with a smile.”

“Remember one thing, boy: never, never, never again will you be funny in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her.”

“It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about this. They speak louder than any words."

“Women should either be idolized or abandoned. Everything else is a lie."

“If a woman belongs to another, she is five times more desirable than one who can be had—an old rule.”

“Women don’t need to explain anything, you always need to act with them.”

“A woman is not metal furniture; she is a flower. She doesn't want to be businesslike. She needs sunny, sweet words. It’s better to say something nice to her every day than to work for her all your life with gloomy frenzy.”

“I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how scary it is to love a woman and be poor.”

“What you can’t get always seems better than what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.”

And once again about love

The relationship between Erich Maria Remarque and Marlene Dietrich deserves special attention. It was a stormy and painful relationship. Dietrich is considered the prototype of the heroine of the Arc de Triomphe. Remarque's letters with quotes and aphorisms about love and life are read in one breath.

“Don’t do anything in a hurry, don’t be afraid of anything and don’t be annoyed at anything, we’re just getting started, they’ll still be surprised” - from the telegram.

“People no longer recognize the call. They didn’t even hear him... There is no heavenly ambiguity in them; they are terribly clear. They don't have "More!" “They reduce everything.”

“Every heart knows the ebb and flow of the tide, and every head too. And when the sea recedes, it leaves all sorts of strange creatures on the beach.”

"Love me. Tell me you love me, it makes me a better person. I will work better, and more calmly, and faster, if you tell me that you love me, for I live only because you love me.”

“In a person, only what you change in him belongs to you...”

“And, as always, God is in the details...”

And a little humor

And yet, in spite of everything, Remarque was a living person, and not a sad, detached genius, and knew how to approach life with humor.

“They say the first seventy years are the hardest to live. And then things will go smoothly.”

“Life is a sailboat with too many sails, so it can capsize at any moment.”

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The writer’s fate was not easy: like many of his peers, he, while still a young man, went to the front, where he was seriously wounded. His manuscripts were burned by the Nazis, and his love was painful and painful. The books that he left to people are based on living feelings and images that happened before his eyes and lived in his heart.

The main themes he writes about are love and war. The love in his novels is passionate, all-consuming and permeates one’s entire life. War is terrible, breaking the will, faith and destiny of a person. He wrote about a lost generation that has no place among people who did not survive the horrors of war.

About love

• “No,” he said quickly. - Not this. Stay friends? Plant a small garden on the cooled lava of faded feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This only happens after small affairs, and even then it turns out rather false. Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end"
• No person can become more of a stranger than someone you loved in the past.
• What can one person give to another except a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let him in, you’ll want to hold him. And nothing can be held back...
• How clumsy a person becomes when he truly loves! How quickly his self-confidence flies away! And how lonely he seems to himself; all his vaunted experience suddenly dissipates like smoke, and he feels so insecure.
• Human life is too long for love alone. It's just too long. Love is wonderful. But one of the two always gets bored. And the other one is left with nothing. He freezes and waits for something... He waits like crazy...
• Only those who have been alone more than once know the happiness of meeting their beloved.
• Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs actions.
• All love wants to be eternal. This is her eternal torment.
• A woman becomes wiser from love, but a man loses his head.
• Only if you finally break up with a person do you begin to be truly interested in everything that concerns him. This is one of the paradoxes of love.

Oh happiness

• Only an unhappy person knows what happiness is. A happy person feels the joy of life no more than a mannequin: he only demonstrates this joy, but it is not given to him. The light doesn't shine when it's light. He shines in the darkness.
• Only cows are happy these days.
• You can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. There is nothing to say here except that you are happy. And people talk about misfortune all night long.
• In fact, a person is truly happy only 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 left to do?
• Happiness is the most uncertain and expensive thing in the world.
• The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.

About a human

• As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his destiny.
• The more primitive a person is, the higher his opinion of himself.
• There is nothing more tiring than being present when a person demonstrates his intelligence. Especially if you have no mind.
• “Nothing is lost yet,” I repeated. - You only lose a person when he dies.
• Cynics have the easiest character, idealists have the most intolerable character. Don't you think this is strange?
• The less self-esteem a person has, the more he is worth.
• It is a mistake to assume that all people have the same ability to feel.
• If you want people not to notice anything, you don’t have to be careful.

About the woman

• Remember one thing, boy: you will never, never, never again be funny in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her sake.
• It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about this. They speak louder than any words.
• Women should either be idolized or abandoned. Everything else is a lie.
• If a woman belongs to another, she is five times more desirable than one who can be had - an old rule.
• Women don’t need to explain anything; you always need to act with them.
• A woman is not metal furniture; she is a flower. She doesn't want to be businesslike. She needs sunny, sweet words. It’s better to say something nice to her every day than to work for her all your life with gloomy frenzy.
• I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how scary it is to love a woman and be poor.

About life

• What you can't get always seems better than what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.
• They say the first seventy years are the hardest to live. And then things will go smoothly.
• Life is a sailboat with too many sails, so it can capsize at any moment.
• Repentance is the most useless thing in the world. Nothing can be returned. Nothing can be fixed. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life didn't mean to make us perfect. Anyone who is perfect belongs in a museum.
• Principles must sometimes be violated, otherwise there is no joy in them.
• It's better to die when you want to live than to live until you want to die
• And no matter what happens to you, don’t take anything to heart. Few things in the world remain important for long.

• The writer's real name is Erich Paul Remarque. He changed his middle name in honor of his mother, who died in 1918.
• Erich was so ashamed of his first published story that he subsequently bought the entire edition.
• Remarque wrote the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” in just 6 weeks.
• Remarque loved to read Dostoevsky.
• Remarque's marriage to his wife Jutta lasted just over 4 years, after which they divorced. But, in 1938, Remarque married Jutta again in order to help her get out of Germany and get the opportunity to live in Switzerland, where he himself lived at that time, and later they left for the USA together. The divorce was officially finalized only in 1957. The writer paid Yutta a monetary allowance until the end of his life, and also bequeathed 50 thousand dollars to her.
• When Marlene Dietrich left for the USA, Remarque wrote letters to her every day.
• Remarque was nominated for the Nobel Prize, but the protest of the League of German Officers prevented him. The writer was accused of having written a novel commissioned by the Entente, and of stealing the manuscript from a murdered comrade. He was called a traitor to his homeland, a playboy, a cheap celebrity.