Remarque phrases about life. Quotes remark about the most beautiful feelings in the world

About people

As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his fate.

The more primitive a person, the higher his opinion of himself.

There is nothing more tiring than to be present when a person demonstrates his mind. Especially if there is no mind.

Nothing is lost yet,” I repeated. You lose a man only when he dies.

Most easy temper among the cynics, most intolerable among the idealists. Don't you think this is strange?

The less pride a person has, the more he is worth.

It is a mistake to assume that all people have the same ability to feel.

If you want people not to notice anything, you don't have to be careful.

About love

"No," he said quickly. - Just not this. Stay friends? Dilute a small garden on the cooled lava of extinct feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This happens only after small intrigues, and even then it turns out to be rather false. Love is not stained with friendship. The end is the end"

No person can become more alien than the one you loved in the past.

What can one person give to another, except for a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let it go, you want to keep it. And nothing can be kept...

How clumsy a person becomes when he truly loves! How quickly self-confidence flies from him! And how lonely he seems to himself; all his vaunted experience suddenly vanishes like smoke and he feels so insecure.

Human life is too long for one love. Just too long. Love is wonderful. But one of the two always gets bored. And the other is left with nothing. It freezes and waits for something... Waits like crazy...

Only the one who has been alone more than once knows the happiness of meeting with his beloved.

Love cannot be explained. She needs action.

Every love wants to be eternal. This is her eternal torment.

A woman grows wiser from love, and a man loses his head.

Only if you finally part with a person, you begin to be truly interested in everything that concerns him. This is one of the paradoxes of love.

About happiness

Only the unfortunate knows what happiness is. The lucky man feels the joy of life no more than a mannequin: he only demonstrates this joy, but it is not given to him. The light does not shine when it is light. He shines in the darkness.

Just happy now only cows.

You can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. There's nothing to say except that you're happy. And people talk about misfortune all night long.

In fact, a person is truly happy only when he pays the least attention to time and when he is not driven by fear. And yet, even if you are driven by fear, you can laugh. What else is left to do?

Happiness is the most uncertain and costly thing in the world.

The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.

About women

Remember one thing, boy: never, never, never again will you be ridiculous in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her.

It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about it. They are more eloquent than any words.

Women should either be idolized or left. Everything else is a lie.

If a woman belongs to someone else, she is five times more desirable than one that can be obtained - an old rule.

Women do not need to explain anything, you always need to act with them.

A woman is not metal furniture for you; she is a flower. She doesn't want business. She needs sunny, sweet words. It is better to say something pleasant to her every day than to work for her all your life with sullen frenzy.

I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how terrible it is to love a woman and be poor.

About life

What you can't get always seems better than that what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.

Erich Maria Remarque ... He is really great in his humanity - a classic who was destined to write with a suffering soul in the terrible era of world wars ...

At first, his name was pronounced as Erich Paul Remarque.

At the age of nineteen, during World War I, he nearly became crippled due to five excruciating battle wounds. The doctors predicted for him a short and bleak existence of a disabled person, but he turned out to be stronger. However, the most terrible blow for Eric was the untimely death from the misfortunes and grief of his mother - a year later, after being wounded. Later, Remarque's quotes were used by biographers, describing the mental suffering he endured: “Mother is the most touching of all that is on earth. Mother means: to forgive and to sacrifice oneself.

Writer's special talent

As he said in his memoirs, in order to acquire a kind of talisman during a period of heavy loss, one day a decision came: to replace “Paul” in his full name with the name of his mother - Maria. Erich believed that this would further protect him in his life, a dropout schoolboy, scorched by the war.

Originality and imagery of thinking was organically characteristic of this talented person. Perhaps that is why Remarque about love and war, about a man and his feelings, touches the soul of readers.

Remarque begins literary activity

He went through a non-hothouse school of life in his younger years. A strong body still recovered. After being wounded, he tried to take place as a musician, race car driver, and then as a journalist. At this time, he writes the first works, in style reminiscent of the tabloid press. However, after five years, it is obvious that he is entrusted with a prestigious job in Europe - to be a correspondent for the Hanoverian edition of Echo Continental. It was good school. Returning to Germany, he becomes editor of the weekly "Sport im bild".

The author's creation of the world's best novel about World War I

Four years later, Remarque takes up writing a novel that brought him fame and prosperity - “On Western front no change." The story of an outstanding prose master about those people who, having been torn away from peaceful life, pushed into the burning crucible of war, forced to die by the thousands. Subsequently, the novel clearly opposed the power of Hitler, appealing to the humanism of readers, awakening their compassion, rejection of violence.

The author seemed to foresee the catastrophe of Germany in the 40s, telling about compatriots who turned into critics. Critics admit that in world literature this novel is best book about World War I.

Its continuation - the book "Return" - told about the writer's contemporaries, who, crippled physically and spiritually, having returned from the front to peaceful life, turned out to be unclaimed, restless.

Forced emigration

There are no prophets in their own country. Klikushi soon called the writer's works "subversive". The humanistic perception of the tragedy of military conflicts by the author clearly did not coincide with the Goebbels ideology of the National Socialists who came to power in Germany in the 30s. According to the Nazis, his works "weakened the German spirit", and Erich Maria Remarque himself became "the enemy of the Fuhrer."

The Nazis, except for barbarism, had nothing to oppose the truth of Remarque's honest story about the fate of his generation, crippled by the war: his "treacherous" books were publicly burned. The writer, fearing reprisals, emigrates to Switzerland.

40 years of emigration...

Was it by chance that the period of the writer's emigration coincided with the time of Moses' search for the "promised land" for his people? Remarque proved himself outside the borders of his homeland not only as a patriot writer, but also as a philosopher writer. He himself wrote: "Time does not heal ...".

The classic shows the real German spirit in his novels to the whole world - the spirit of thinkers, humanists, workers, deeply rethinking the tragedy of his homeland and his compatriots. The same spirit that subsequently made people talk about the "German miracle" - the rapid revival of the country.

From Switzerland, he moves to France, then to Mexico, then to the USA. His "emigrant" novels - " Triumphal Arch”,“ Night in Lisbon ”,“ Love your neighbor ”- become iconic in world literature. Contemporaries understand: Remarque writes the classics.

His works are "Three comrades", "Arc de Triomphe", "Life on loan", "Night in Lisbon". "Black Obelisk", "A Time to Live and a Time to Die" are widely known and filmed. The thoughts expressed by Remarque in them are quoted and relevant.

Each of Remarque's novels is worthy of a separate article, but we have the opportunity to write in more detail about only one.

"Triumphal Arch"

The novel "Arc de Triomphe" was written by Remarque at the end of World War II in the United States, where he emigrated. Its basis is true story a German emigrant, Dr. Fresenburg, who abroad used the false name Ravik. At the same time, Remarque introduced a lot of personal things into the image of the protagonist of the novel...

This is a paradoxical book, because, despite the fact that its plot spanned years bloody war, her leitmotif was love. Love that "is not stained with friendship." In this work, one can feel not just the style of the author, but the amazing power of his work. The story of the talented German surgeon Ravik, who illegally resides in Paris and performs brilliantly while being forced to keep his incognito, cannot leave readers indifferent, because he “spends his life in many hotels”, recalling his pre-war homeland, which he calls “paradise lost”.

The commonality of the image of Ravik and the personality of its author

Remarque created the Arc de Triomphe, not only generously endowing the protagonist with autobiographical features. Like Dr. Ravik, he could not live in his native Germany (the Nazis revoked his citizenship). Like the one who fought in I world war. how the protagonist novel, was in love. However, the literary Joan Madu had a very real prototype - Marlene Dietrich, with whom Remarque had a vivid romance in 1937, which ended only in the death of the writer in 1970. It was because Marlene was not created for family life... The writer's talented presentation of the story of their love makes readers memorize Remarque's quotes, enjoying their poetry and sublimity.

What else brought the great German novelist of the 20th century closer to Dr. Ravik? Hatred for fascists. According to the plot of the book, the surgeon kills the Gestapo executioner Haacke in Paris, who tortured and tortured his beloved to suicide.

If the creator of this hero, a front-line writer, had got caught by a person guillotining his beloved older sister Elfrida in Germany, perhaps this unimagined enemy would have been destroyed in real life in much the same way! The "selfish" initial feeling of revenge in the mind of Ravik, as a result of reflection, was replaced by the desire to "renew the fight." This can be understood by re-reading Remarque's quotes about war, about human dignity.

"Arc de Triomphe" - a deep, philosophical novel

What else brings literary image and its creator? The inner core, which allows not only to survive the times of the brown plague of fascism, but also to become ideological opponents of the misanthropic ideology. Remarque does not express his attitude towards fascism directly. For him, these are “prison dungeons”, “frozen faces of tortured friends”, “petrified grief of the living”. But it is clearly visible through the phrases of his characters: sometimes accusatory, sometimes cynical. Like an artist - with separate strokes - he conveys to the reader the rethought essence of the "brown plague".

Remarque on the role of books in life

No one before him or after has written about books so penetratingly. Indeed, for an outcast, an emigrant, they, these "cubic pieces of a smoking conscience", were often the only closest friends. Both Remarque and Dr. Ravik created by him, being far from their homeland, find an outlet for the soul in reading books. How accurate are Remarque's quotes about them, true friends and advisers for those who have suffered human souls, an intangible product of human genius!

He was fond of the works of Zweig, Dostoevsky, Goethe, Thomas Mann. Of course, books on philosophy and good classical literature do not bring additional material means for existence. However, as a German classic of the 20th century writes penetratingly, they create an insurmountable barrier to evil in a person’s soul, preventing this dark element from entering his life.

The image of the author in the Arc de Triomphe

O life position the author says Remarque quotes. "The triumphal arch ... protecting the grave with its bulk unknown soldier”, acts as a pan-European symbol of peace and stability. It is perceived as a kind of majestic artifact that survived the rise and fall of Napoleon and which is destined to survive the fiasco of Hitler. The novel itself is a hymn to the European worldview based on love, reasonable individualism, tolerance, critical reflection reality, readiness for dialogue.

Despite the fact that Dr. Ravik, living in Paris on forged documents, suffers hardships - he does not permanent housing, has not got a family and children - he is not embittered, his thoughts and actions are honest and open. He, following his conscience, helps people in situations where his more prosperous colleagues show selfishness and selfishness.

High integrity in privacy Remarque himself was always noted. He, like Mother Teresa, tried to help everyone. For example, Erich simply sheltered his colleague Hans Sochachever in his house ... His works were in demand and brought fees, he actually spent them all on financial assistance to his compatriots - dissidents.

A heavy personal loss for the writer was the loss of his friend, the German journalist Felix Mendelssohn, who was killed in public, in broad daylight, by Nazi agents.

He is heartbroken for his compatriots, especially those who are in France. After all, the occupation of this country by Germany for many of them ended in a concentration camp and death ... Perhaps that is why Remarque ends his most tragic novel on a minor note. The controversial and feminine Joan dies from the shot of a jealous actor. German troops cross the border and approach the capital of France. Ravik acts like a fatalist - he surrenders to the police, instead of hiding ...

The special atmosphere of Paris of the 30s conveyed by the author

It would be unfair, talking about the "Arc de Triomphe", not to note its artistic and historical value. Reading it, it is as if you are plunging into the pre-war atmosphere ... Remarque's quotes tell about a special image of Paris, living an unnatural luxurious life, as if by inertia. "Arc de Triomphe" tells about the carelessness of the life of French society. The fragility of this state of affairs is obvious.

symbolic in the description French capital is to focus readers' attention on two buildings - the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Conclusion

The reading community has many faces... We are really different: poor and rich, lucky and struggling for existence, seeing the world in bright colors and painting it in gray tones. So what do we have in common?

I would like the readers to find the answer themselves in asking this question. classical literature, remembering some quotes ... Erich Remarque, being in essence an individualist, in fact, in all his novels he appealed precisely to the human community. And its main values, according to the writer, should be love, friendship, fidelity, decency. A person who possesses these qualities invariably brings light into that small world, Where does he live.

However, this is not enough. After all, a “passport” (that is, citizenship), according to Remarque, gives a person only one right - to die of hunger, “without being on the run.” Therefore, it is also important to be a professional in the chosen field.

All these qualities are inherent in Remarque.

Erich Maria Remarque one of the most famous and widely read German writers twentieth century. He belongs to the "lost generation" writers. This is a group of young people who went through the horrors of the First World War and saw the post-war world not at all the way it was seen from the trenches.

We present to your attention 35 incredibly deep and insightful quotes from his books about life, love and simple human happiness:

You can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. There's nothing to say except that you're happy. And people talk about misfortune all night long.
When you are completely discouraged, come to my hospital. One bypass of the cancer department in no time cures any blues.
What you can't get always seems better than what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.
You should never grind down what you started to do on a grand scale.
In life, only a fool wins. And the smart one sees only obstacles everywhere, and before he has time to start something, he has already lost self-confidence.
Any peace is worthless if there is no peace in the heart.
Happiness is the most uncertain and costly thing in the world.
The less pride a person has, the more he is worth.
It is a mistake to assume that all people have the same ability to feel.
Conscience usually torments those who are not guilty.
Gratitude, if only you can feel it, warms the soul.
How pitiful truths become when spoken out loud.
A woman grows wiser from love, and a man loses his head.
As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his fate.
The more primitive a person, the higher his opinion of himself.
There is nothing more tiring than to be present when a person demonstrates his mind. Especially if there is no mind.
Only the unfortunate knows what happiness is.
Cynics have the easiest character, idealists have the most unbearable. Don't you think this is strange?
Strange as it may seem, but all sorts of troubles and misfortunes in this world very often come from people of small stature; they have a much more quarrelsome and energetic character than tall people.
Anything that can be settled with money is cheap.
It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about it. They are more eloquent than any words.
Women should either be idolized or left. Everything else is a lie.
The greatest hatred arises for those who managed to touch the heart, and then spat into the soul.
Most strong feeling- disappointment. Not resentment, not jealousy, and not even hatred ... after them, at least something remains in the soul, after disappointment - emptiness.
Nowhere is waiting for a person. You always have to bring everything with you.
I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how terrible it is to love a woman and be poor.
If we stop doing stupid things, then we are old.
They say the first seventy years are the hardest to live. And then things will go smoothly.
Money does not bring happiness, but it is extremely calming.
The more trifles you consider luck, the more often you are lucky.
As long as a person is alive, nothing is lost.
Repentance is the most useless thing in the world. Nothing can be returned. Nothing can be fixed. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life was not meant to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect has a place in a museum.
It is better to die when you want to live than to live to the point that you want to die.
Laughing is better than crying. Especially if both are useless.
And whatever happens to you, don't take anything to heart. Little in the world is important for a long time.

25 quotes from Erich Maria Remarque, a writer from big heart, who wrote about love so deeply and penetratingly that it is impossible to tear oneself away from his works:

A person can become close to you in three days. And someone who lives next to you for years may never know what your favorite color is.
When you find your own, you don’t even want to look at another.
The most fragile thing on earth is the love of a woman. One wrong step, word, look and nothing can be restored.
The strongest feeling is disappointment. Not resentment, not jealousy, and not even hatred ... after them, at least something remains in the soul, after disappointment - emptiness.
What can one person give to another, except for a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let it go, you want to keep it. And nothing can be kept...
Apology does not mean that you are wrong and the other person is right. It just means that the value of your relationship is more important than your own ego.
Your person is not the one who is “well with you” - hundreds of people can be well with you. Yours - "it's bad without you."
If your soul reaches out to someone, do not resist. She is the only one who knows exactly what we need..
It's just that we are strangers who accidentally passed some segment of the path together, without understanding each other.
Stay friends? Dilute a small garden on the cooled lava of extinct feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This happens only after small intrigues, and even then it turns out to be rather false. Love is not stained with friendship. The end is the end.
No person can become more alien than the one you loved in the past.
We will never forget each other, but we will never return each other.
Love cannot be explained. She needs action.
Remember one thing, boy: never, never, never again will you be ridiculous in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her.
It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about it. They are more eloquent than any words.
Women should either be idolized or left. Everything else is a lie.
We are so afraid of being intrusive that we seem indifferent.
The greatest hatred arises for those who managed to touch the heart, and then spat into the soul.
I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how terrible it is to love a woman and be poor.
It's hard to find words when you really have something to say.
The more you try to achieve a person who does not appreciate you, the more painful for you will be the blows of his indifference.
To try to forget someone means to remember him all the time.
People who think that no one needs them are in fact often the most needed.
It doesn't matter how often you see each other - what matters is what these meetings mean to you.
The first person you think of in the morning and last man What you think about at night is either the reason for your happiness or the reason for your pain.

Remarque was incredible person, he was an intellectual with a vulnerable soul and with great talent, which he did not recognize.

The life of the writer was not easy, because at a fairly young age he went to war, where he was seriously wounded. The Nazis burned his texts, and relationships with women were excruciating and quite painful for him. The experience that gave him life left a huge imprint on his work. Love and war are the main themes of his books. He wrote about passionate and penetrating love, about war, as terrible and destroying the fate of many, about lost generation survivors of the horrors of war.

We have selected the most inspiring, penetrating and simple best quotes from the books of Remarque. "Three Comrades", "Arc de Triomphe", "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Life on Borrowed", in each of these novels, Remarque, invested his entire life experience and my heart that has survived a lot.

About life

Repentance is the most useless thing in the world. Nothing can be returned. Nothing can be fixed. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life was not meant to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect has a place in a museum.
They say the first seventy years are the hardest to live. And then things will go smoothly.
Life is like a sailboat with too many sails to capsize at any moment.
What you can't get always seems better than what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.
Principles must sometimes be violated, otherwise there is no joy from them.
And whatever happens to you, don't take anything to heart. Little in the world is important for a long time.
It is better to die when you want to live than to live to the point that you want to die.
The greatest hatred arises for those who managed to touch the heart, and then spat into the soul.
Who is ready to let go with a smile, they try to keep him.

About happiness

You can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. There's nothing to say except that you're happy. And people talk about misfortune all night long.
Just happy now only cows.
Only the unfortunate knows what happiness is. The lucky man feels the joy of life no more than a mannequin: he only demonstrates this joy, but it is not given to him. The light does not shine when it is light. He shines in the darkness.
In fact, a person is truly happy only when he pays the least attention to time and when he is not driven by fear. And yet, even if you are driven by fear, you can laugh. What else is left to do?
The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.
Happiness is the most uncertain and costly thing in the world.

About love

Only if you finally part with a person, you begin to be truly interested in everything that concerns him. This is one of the paradoxes of love.
No person can become more alien than the one you loved in the past.
What can one person give to another, except for a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let it go, you want to keep it. And nothing can be kept...
Human life is too long for one love. Just too long. Love is wonderful. But one of the two always gets bored. And the other is left with nothing. It will freeze and wait for something... Waiting like crazy...
Only the one who has been alone more than once knows the happiness of meeting with his beloved.
Love cannot be explained. She needs action.
"No," he said quickly. - Just not this. Stay friends? Dilute a small garden on the cooled lava of extinct feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This happens only after small intrigues, and even then it turns out to be rather false. Love is not stained with friendship. The end is the end"
Every love wants to be eternal. This is her eternal torment.
A woman grows wiser from love, and a man loses his head.
How clumsy a person becomes when he truly loves! How quickly self-confidence flies from him! And how lonely he seems to himself; all his vaunted experience suddenly vanishes like smoke and he feels so insecure.

About a woman

Women do not need to explain anything, you always need to act with them.
Remember one thing, boy: never, never, never again will you be ridiculous in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her.
Women should either be idolized or left. Everything else is a lie.
It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about it. They are more eloquent than any words.
If a woman belongs to someone else, she is five times more desirable than one that can be obtained - an old rule.
I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how terrible it is to love a woman and be poor.
A woman is not metal furniture for you; she is a flower. She doesn't want business. She needs sunny, sweet words. It is better to say something pleasant to her every day than to work for her all your life with sullen frenzy.

About a human

The more primitive a person, the higher his opinion of himself.
It is a mistake to assume that all people have the same ability to feel.
There is nothing more tiring than to be present when a person demonstrates his mind. Especially if there is no mind.
Nothing is lost yet,” I repeated. You lose a man only when he dies.
If you want people not to notice anything, you don't have to be careful.
Cynics have the easiest character, idealists have the most unbearable. Don't you think this is strange?
The less pride a person has, the more he is worth.
As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his fate.