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Erich Maria Remarque Quotes about Lying

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.52, Random House

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

Title of translation of his novel Im Westen nichts Neues (Nothing New in the West, 1929). Cf. the title of a poem by Ethel L. Beers: All Quiet along the Potomac (1861)