Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker character, I have to tap into something that isn't my natural way, and what I found was that I think human beings have the potential for all of these emotions.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.

Life is sometimes you're happy, sometimes you're sad, sometimes you're in love, sometimes you fight, and that's a life.

Even in a world with much sadness, at its essence, life is beautiful.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.

Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.

Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.