Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

Wars break things; they break stories.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth

If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

War tore my family apart.

'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.