Erich Maria Remarque

“Remorse is the most useless thing in the world. It can't undo a single thing.”

“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.”

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.”

“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.”

“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”

“To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory.”

“No one can be a greater stranger than the person you once loved.”

“Only the unhappy man knows what happiness is.”

“Forgive, but never forget.”

“It's better to die when you still want to live, than to die and want to die.”

“The best way to lose a woman is to show her a photograph of your wife.”

“Life is too long for a single love.”

“A man can't die in the spring.”

“Strange how apostles of peace like me and Jesus Christ have to make their point with guns.”

“A single human being is a world.”

“Modesty and conscientiousness are qualities which are held in little esteem in this world.”

“Never do anything that bores you.”