No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
Erich Maria RemarqueWe are not youth any longer. We donโt want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
Erich Maria RemarqueFor us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
Erich Maria RemarqueI had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life โ and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.
Erich Maria Remarque