Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

War is too strange to process alone.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

It's an important fact of life, war.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.