Philosophy Quote by Erich Maria Remarque — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.”

“For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.”

“A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!”

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”

“Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.”

“The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being scraped along the spine. Our legs won't function, our hands are trembling and our bodies are like thin membranes stretched over barely repressed madness, holding in what would otherwise be an unrestrained outburst of endless scream.s. We have no flesh, no muscle now”

“Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark”

“Love is a cowboy's hardest ride.”

“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.”

“Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!”

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”

“Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”