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We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.


Erich Maria Remarque

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WENDELL SAY We talk so much yet we have nothing to say.
JUSTIN WETCH We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.
NOVALA TAKEMOTO We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
CARLES PUIGDEMONT We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
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MARCUS SAMUELSSON Nobody ever said no. You just didn't say no to Maria.
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JAKE GYLLENHAAL Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".
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MICHELLE YAZZIE He didn't have to say much. We all expected to win and knew what we had to do.
JUSTIN GAETHJE The oldest hath borne most: we that are young,Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN We need to weigh in on this. If we think six stories is too much, we need to say so.
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SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES We taught them to 'Just Say No,' but we never told them what to say next.
MASON DUCHATSCHEK God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we can hear twice as much as we say.
SOURCE UNKNOWN We humiliated ourselves. We embarrassed ourselves. I don't think I have to say much more.
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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The fir...
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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Pred platnima impresionista čovek nije mogao verovati da jedna životinjska vrsta koja je tako neš...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE It is too dangerous for me to put these things into words. I am afraid they might then become gigant...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so al...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your b...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possibl...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Beside us lies a fair-headed recruit in utter terror. He has buried his face in his hands, his helme...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being s...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE …it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his fa...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are ...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE The things men did or felt they had to do.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arrangi...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long ...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Our knowledge of life is limited to death
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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleei...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, b...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as...
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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, i...
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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popu...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that ...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, ...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE A hospital alone shows what war is.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man ...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would not have
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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight an...
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ERICH FROMM Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'
ERICH BERGEN The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r...
ERICH FROMM Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the pri...
ERICH FROMM A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has...
ERICH FROMM The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
ERICH SEGAL The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissist...
ERICH FROMM If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what th...
ERICH FROMM Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
ERICH HONECKER We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put throu...
ERICH HOEBER The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young m...
ERICH AUERBACH Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love...
ERICH FROMM Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says: 'I need you because I lo...
ERICH FROMM That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the mir...
ERICH FROMM The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically...
ERICH FROMM Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
ERICH FROMM Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
ERICH FROMM Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the sep...
ERICH FROMM Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational p...
ERICH FROMM Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love yo...
ERICH FROMM Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
ERICH SEGAL True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checke...
ERICH SEGAL Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
ERICH FROMM There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and ex...
ERICH FROMM As we can.
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