Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

What we have never had, remains; It is the things we have that go.

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.