The best quotes about love from the books of Remarque

Remarque is a vivid representative of the “lost generation” along with Ernest Hemingway and Richard Aldington. His works are so well read that they have long been disassembled for quotes.

From the pen of the writer came the novels “On the Western Front without change”, “Three comrades”, “Triumphal Arch”, “Life on loan”, “Black obelisk”, “Time to live and time to die”, “Return” and others, at least one of which read every self-respecting modern reader.

The remark had something to say about life. At 18, he faced the horrors of war while being mobilized and sent to the Western Front of World War I. After going through hell, he didn’t want it to happen again. Because of this, the writer began a difficult relationship with the Nazi authorities.





9 years before the outbreak of World War II, he had to leave his native country due to conflict and oppression. His younger sister, who remained in Germany, was guillotined in 1943 for speaking out against the war. Remarque learned about this only after the war and dedicated the novel Spark of Life to her.

The writer’s relationship with women was also difficult. His first wife was former dancer Jutta Zambona. The marriage did not last long, only 4 years, all this time the wife suffered from consumption. After the divorce and until her death, Remarque kept her. And she also wrote off the image of Pat for the novel “Three comrades”.





After he begins a long, stormy and painful affair at a distance with the famous actress Marlene Dietrich. She became the prototype of Joan Madu, the heroine of the novel “The Arc de Triomphe”.

From depression and disappointment of the writer cured another actress Paulette Goddard, who became his last wife and survived him for 20 years.

We chose the best for you. citation from his best books.





Quotes of Remarque On the Woman

1. “Women don’t have to explain anything, they always have to be acted upon.”
2. Remember one thing, boy: Never, never, never again will you be funny to a woman if you do something for her.
3. “It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loved him. Let her bright, happy eyes talk about it. They are more eloquent than words.”
4. “Women should either be worshipped or abandoned. Everything else is a lie.
5. “A woman is not metal furniture; 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 her life with a morose fury.”
6. I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed, and thought how terrible it is to love a woman and be poor.
   
   
   
   

About life, happiness and love

1. “Repentance is the most useless thing in the world. You can't bring anything back. Nothing can be fixed. Otherwise, we would all be saints. Life did not mean to make us perfect. He who is perfect has a place in the museum.”
2. “Whatever happens to you, do not take anything personally. Few things in the world are important for a long time.”
3. “The greatest hatred comes to those who touch the heart and then spit on the soul.”
4. “Whoever is ready to let go with a smile, they try to keep him.”
   
   
   
   
5. “One 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.”
6. “Only the unhappy know 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 doesn't shine when it's light. It shines in darkness.”
7. “A man 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 there to do?
   
   
   
   
8. “No man can be more stranger than the man you loved in the past.”
9. “What can one man give to another but a drop of heat? And what could be more than that? Just don't let anyone near you. If you let it, you'll want to hold it. And you can't hold anything.
10. “Love does not tolerate explanation. She needs action”.
11. "No," he quickly said. - Not that. Stay friends? Make a small garden on the cooled lava of faded feelings? No, it's not for you and me. This happens only after small intrigues, and even then it turns out quite fake. Love doesn't stain friendship. The end is the end.”
12. “A woman grows wise from love, and a man loses his head.”
    
    
    
    
13. “The more primitive a man is, the higher his opinion of himself.”
14. It is a mistake to assume that all men have the same capacity for feeling.
15. “Nothing is more exhausting than to be present when a man shows his mind. Especially if you have no mind.”
16. “The lightest character of the cynics, the most intolerable of the idealists. Don't you think that's weird?
17. “Until a man gives up, he is stronger than his destiny.”
    
    
    
    

That's far from it. quotes by Erich Maria RemarqueBut even these are enough to notice that the writer was a deep-thinking and sensitive person. His words are worth listening to.

Are you into quotes? Then we suggest you read the capacious statements of Honore de Balzac and Anton Chekhov.