Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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

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

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

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

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

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.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

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

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

War remains the decisive human failure.