Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.

I've certainly been mortared and rocketed a few times.

I get panic attacks about dying, it's terrible. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and my brain goes 'you're going to die, you're going to die, you're going to die.'

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

I don't want to die before my parents die, especially my mother. Because I think that's tragic. Because I don't want her to get the chance to pick out what I'm going to wear for eternity.

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.