Erich Maria Remarque | Quotes to Reignite Your Love

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Erich Maria Remarque was a german novelist promptly know for his bestseller novel All Quiet on the Western Front. He was a student at the University of Munster. At the age of 18, he was drafted into the German army. 

Here are some of his quotes on love, women:

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

Erich Maria Remarque

Remember one thing, boy: never, never, and again, never will you turn out to be funny in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her.

Erich Maria Remarque

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

Erich Maria Remarque

Only those who have been left alone more than once know the happiness of meeting with their beloved.

Erich Maria Remarque

Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs action.

Erich Maria Remarque

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

Erich Maria Remarque

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel.

Erich Maria Remarque

It’s only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Erich Maria Remarque

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

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

Erich Maria Remarque

Human life is too long for love alone. 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 … It waits like crazy …

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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Erich Maria Remarque

Women do not need to explain anything, they always need to act.

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Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.

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“No,” he said quickly. – Just not that. Remain friends? To plant a small garden on the cooled lava of dying feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This happens only after a little affair, and even that turns out pretty fake. Love is not stained by friendship. The end is the end ”

Erich Maria Remarque

If a woman belongs to another, she is five times more desirable than the one that can be obtained – the old rule.

Erich Maria Remarque

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Erich Maria Remarque

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

Erich Maria Remarque

A woman is not metal furniture for you; she is a flower. She does not want efficiency. She needs sunny, sweet words. It’s better to tell her something pleasant every day than to work for her with a sullen frenzy all her life.

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I hope these quotes help you in igniting your love life.

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