Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

Finding common ground means reaching out with respect and aloha - despite the issues that divide us, despite the hurt, despite the fear - and recognize what unites us as human beings.

Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all.

We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.

The things I believe in now are grace and the power of human connection to change hearts and minds and the importance of civil dialogue.

If we learn that we're actually the same, then we can be a grander picture and not be so hateful to each other.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.