Frases de Erich Maria Remarque

„Para mí el frente es un siniestro remolino.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

Sin Novedad en el Frente.

„Para nosotros, muchachos de dieciocho años, deberían haber habido mediadores y guías para el mundo de la madurez, el mundo del trabajo, del deber, de la cultura, del progreso, hacia el futuro.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

„Eso es lo sorprendente de tomar: une a las personas tan rápidamente, pero entre la noche y la mañana establece un intervalo de años nuevamente.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

„Estamos tristes como niños, y experimentados como ancianos, somos toscos, tristes y superficiales; creo que estamos perdidos.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

„marcha maldiciendo.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Sin novedad en el frente

Sin novedad en el frente

„Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro The Night in Lisbon

Fuente: The Night in Lisbon

„Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

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

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Three Comrades

Fuente: Three Comrades

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

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Sin novedad en el frente

Fuente: All Quiet on the Western Front

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

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Sin novedad en el frente

Fuente: All Quiet on the Western Front

„It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by short people. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Sin novedad en el frente

Fuente: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

„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.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Sin novedad en el frente

Fuente: All Quiet on the Western Front

„It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Sin novedad en el frente

Fuente: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 6
Contexto: 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 dugout I might have been smashed to atoms, and in the open survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier survives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

„Keep things at arm's length… If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Three Comrades

Fuente: Three Comrades

„Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Three Comrades

Fuente: Three Comrades

„You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque

„I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Three Comrades

Fuente: Three Comrades

„That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Three Comrades

Fuente: Three Comrades

„We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, libro Sin novedad en el frente

Fuente: All Quiet on the Western Front