Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

The Republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

Americans see the world as they want it to be rather than the way it is.

We are not saving lives. We are selling dreams.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

There's only one thing more beautiful than a beautiful dream, and that's a beautiful reality.

Everything was okay, as long as I could dream . Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying .

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.