What kind of idiocy of human life are the happiest. Quotes from remark about the most wonderful feelings in the world

Erich Maria Remarque - how does the sophisticated modern reader see him? A genius of the 20th century, the voice of the “lost generation”, the brightest and most recognizable German writer who had a remarkable influence on literature in the future, a person with a sensitive and vulnerable soul? Perhaps all this combined! His works are deservedly included in the top lists, and quotes from Erich Maria Remarque, imbued with deep meaning, have long become catchphrases.

Interesting facts about the writer and his work

Remarque's real name is Erich Paul. In 1918, he replaced its second part with Maria in memory of his deceased mother, with whom he was very close. Since then, the writer’s personality has been shrouded in speculation and myths; people who are poorly versed in the world of literature even consider him a woman. The surname did not go unnoticed by the “public”: after the publication of the first novels, the fascists started a rumor that this was a pseudonym that was invented by a descendant of French Jews, Kramer (Remarque in reverse reading). For a long time this served as a reason for persecution.

Before finding his calling, the young man managed to visit the front, and then, returning home due to a serious wound, worked as a seller of tombstones, an accountant, an organist, and a tutor. The profession of a writer was not chosen by chance: Erich’s life from a young age was filled with books, because his father worked as a bookbinder. One of my favorite authors is Dostoevsky.

Top 3 interesting points related to creativity:

1. The first published work was the novel “The Attic of Dreams.” The writer was not satisfied with the result of his labors: in order not to embarrass himself in front of his readers, he personally bought up the entire published edition.
2. The famous novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” is closely connected with the number 6: it took Remarque six weeks to write a masterpiece, and for six whole months the manuscript gathered dust in the table, waiting in the wings. Subsequently, in post-war Germany, 1.5 million copies of the book were sold in just a year.
3. The writer was nominated for the Nobel Prize, which was unsuccessful due to accusations from the League of German Officers, who claimed that Remarque simply stole the manuscript from a deceased comrade.

Erich Maria was the holder of a baronial title, which ... he bought from an impoverished aristocrat for 500 marks. And his business cards were crowned with an image of a crown. The writer’s hobbies matched his “origin”: collecting carpets, impressionist paintings and images of angels, which he believed would protect his life from harm. However, these cute creatures did not help him obtain American citizenship. For 14 long years, Remarque had to endure all the trials of the protracted procedure, until his “moral character” ceased to raise doubts among the Americans.

The writer had two marriages, and he married his first wife twice - the second time it was a noble act, giving Ilse Jutte the opportunity to get out of Germany. The main woman in Remarque’s life was his compatriot Marlene Dietrich, who became the prototype of Joan Madou in Arc de Triomphe. A painful and filled with countless humiliations, the romance had an equally sad end: in response to a marriage proposal from a woman, there was a revelation that she had had an abortion from someone else.

Despite long setbacks in his personal life, Remarque fully realized himself in creativity: his works inspired people in all corners of the globe. For example, the Soviet rock band Black Obelisk borrowed its name from his novel. And the International Astronomical Union named a crater on Mercury in his honor.

Quotes, sayings and aphorisms of Erich Maria Remarque

Each work of the writer, be it “Life on Borrow,” “Arc de Triomphe,” “Return” or any other novel, is a storehouse of valuable thoughts. Remarque himself did not like to talk about his work, preferring that books do it - the greatest legacy that he gave to people. All of them are woven from living feelings and vivid images that flashed before his eyes and lived in his heart. Each quotation from the works is imbued with such depth, which is sometimes not found in huge volumes written by modern authors.

For the reader's judgment, 100 of the best quotes about love, friendship, everyday happiness, bitter sadness and hatred, the destructive influence of war, biting irony and life in general from the most popular books.

Quotes about love

In his books, she is seen as great happiness and the same pain. This is a passionate feeling, all-consuming, permeating every cell of the body, occupying all thoughts and dreams. It runs like a red thread through all the author’s works. He drew inspiration from his personal life, endowing the heroines of his novels with the traits of his lovers - talented, original and luxurious.

After at least 4 whirlwind romances, Remarque showed love as a strong, spiritual, but by no means eternal feeling, which is so difficult to contain...

Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs actions.

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

“No,” he said quickly. - Not this. Stay friends? Plant a small garden on the cooled lava of faded feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This only happens after small affairs, and even then it turns out quite false. Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end."

Erich Maria Remarque

Quotes from the novels "Three Comrades" (Drei Kameraden), "Arch of Triomphe" (Arc de Triomphe), "Life on Borrow" (Geborgtes Leben), "Shadows in Paradise" (Schatten im Paradies).
Remarque has a huge number of magnificent and wise sayings... And I personally want to quote him again and again...

"... the most serious disease in the world is thinking! It is incurable."

“And when I feel very sad, and I don’t understand anything anymore, then I tell myself that it’s better to die when you want to live, than to live until you want to die.”

“How strange young people today are. You hate the past, you despise the present, and you are indifferent to the future. This is unlikely to lead to a good end.”

“There is no turning back in love. You can never start over: what happens remains in the blood... Love, like time, is irreversible. And neither sacrifices, nor readiness for anything, nor good will - nothing can help, such is the gloomy and ruthless law of love.”

“Whoever wants to hold on loses. They try to hold on to those who are ready to let go with a smile.”

“Love is not a mirror pond into which you can gaze forever. It has ebbs and flows. And the wreckage of shipwrecks, and sunken cities, and octopuses, and storms, and boxes of gold, and pearls... But pearls - those lie very deep.”

“Love is sacrifice. Selfishness is often called love. Only the one who, of his own free will, can give up his beloved for the sake of his happiness truly loves with all his soul.”

“In life, we pay double and triple prices for everything. Why else should there be submission? Fight, fight - that’s the only thing left in this fight, in which you will ultimately be defeated one way or another. Fight for the little that is dear to you. And you can submit at 70 years old."

“You become melancholic when you think about life, and you become cynical when you see what most people make of it.”

“Forget... What a word! It contains horror, consolation, and ghostliness.”

“Just don’t take anything to heart. After all, what you accept, you want to keep. But you can’t keep anything.”

“Human life lasts too long for love alone. ... Love is wonderful. But one of the two always gets bored. And the other is left with nothing. Frozen and waiting for something... Waiting like crazy...”

"Tact is an unwritten agreement not to notice other people's mistakes and not to correct them. That is, a pathetic compromise."

“The most terrible thing, brothers, is time. Time. The moment that we experience and which we still never own.”

"A true idealist strives for money. Money is freedom. And freedom is life."

"Pity is the most useless thing in the world. It is the other side of gloating, let it be known to you."

We love ourselves too much. Selfishness is considered a bad quality. Nobody wants to be considered an egoist, but everyone is a complete egoist! We value our “I” very much! Everyone strives to find their own melody, their own tone, their own sound. Everyone takes different paths, and you have to go through many people before you find the path to yourself, and there is no path more difficult than this. After all, you need to throw off the burden of vanity, inflated self-esteem and conceit, and this is a painful process. From I to You is the great path of humanity. Maybe we will never be able to complete this path, but still - and nevertheless! – we strive. From I to You, to the great You! And then - from You to Everything! The path to turning to feeling is to the great It! Humanity! What do the names mean? The sound is empty! Feeling is everything! A feeling without words or images... Deep peace...

Happiness is the most uncertain and expensive thing in the world.

Only a dream helps us come to terms with reality.

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

She is chasing life, only life, she is chasing it like crazy, as if life is a white deer or a fairy-tale unicorn. She gives herself so much to the chase that her passion infects others. She knows neither restraint nor looking back. With her you feel either old and shabby, or a perfect child. And then, from the depths of forgotten years, someone’s faces suddenly emerge, old dreams and shadows of old dreams are resurrected, and then suddenly, like a flash of lightning in the twilight, a long-forgotten feeling of the uniqueness of life appears.

The second night. It is dangerous. The charm of novelty is no longer there, and the charm of trust is not there yet.

And I'm a very unimportant comrade, Robbie.
-Hope. I don't need a woman as a comrade. I need a lover.
“I’m not a lover,” she muttered.
-So who are you?
-Not half and not whole. so... fragment.
-And this is the best. Excites the imagination. Such women are loved forever. Finished women quickly become boring. perfect too. And never fragments.

You won't stay with me. You can't block the wind. And no water. And if you do this, they will stagnate. Stagnant wind becomes stale air. You were not created to love just one person.

We're going back. She leans on me.
- Never leave me.
- I will never leave you.
“Never,” she repeats. - Never - what a short time.

Sometimes a person loses courage,” Natasha said. - And sometimes it seems that you can get used to disappointments. But that's not true. Each time they cause more and more pain. Such pain that it becomes scary. It seems as if the burns are getting worse each time. And each time the pain goes away more and more slowly. - She rested her head on her hand. - I don't want to get burned anymore.

If you want to do something, never ask about the consequences. Otherwise you won't be able to do anything.

Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs actions.

It is impossible to quarrel with a woman. At worst, you can be angry with her.

When they put you on both shoulder blades, you are ready to start living again, but as soon as you breathe easier, all vows are forgotten!

Why, in fact, do we show much greater interest in the misfortune of our neighbors than in the happiness? Does this mean that man is an envious beast?

You become melancholic when you think about life, and you become cynic when you see what most people make of it.

Forget... What a word! It contains horror, consolation, and deception! Who could live without forgetting? But who can forget everything that you don’t want to remember? A slag of memories that breaks your heart. Only those who have lost everything worth living for are free.

We are not dying. Time is dying. Damn time. It dies continuously. And we live. We live forever. When you wake up, it’s spring outside, when you fall asleep, it’s autumn, and between them winter and summer flash thousands of times, and if we love each other, we are eternal and immortal, like a heartbeat, or rain, or wind - and this is very a lot of. We gain days, my love, and lose years. But who cares, who cares? A moment of joy - that's life! It is the only thing closest to eternity. Your eyes twinkle, stardust flows through infinity, the gods grow decrepit, but your lips are young. A riddle trembles between them - You and I, Call and Response, born of the evening twilight, the delights of all who loved...

Even fools are not always cheerful.

Our era is the era of distorting mirrors.

A woman with a broken voice sat next to me and said something. She needed a partner for one night, some piece of someone else's life. It would spur her on, help her forget, forget the painfully clear truth that nothing ever remains, not “I”, not “you”, least of all “we”. Wasn't she looking for essentially the same thing as me? A companion to forget the loneliness of life, a comrade to somehow overcome the meaninglessness of existence?

The vulgar laws of human nature are not taken into account here. Everyone must be young. And if youth is gone, it is returned artificially. Add this observation to your chapter on the unreal world.

A light rumble ran through the stands. Lillian noticed how people's faces changed. They suddenly felt relief: someone managed to escape, someone showed courage, did not allow themselves to be broken, and moved on. And each of the spectators felt courage in themselves, as if he himself was sitting behind the wheel of Clerfe’s car. For a few minutes, the fidgety gigolo felt like a hero, and the pampered ladies' man felt like a brave man who despised death. And sex - a companion to any danger in which the person himself does not feel danger - drove adrenaline into the blood of these people. That's why they paid money for entrance tickets.

You think that I am throwing away my money, but I think that you are throwing away your life. Let everyone remain to their own opinion.

Discipline is a commendable quality,” Clerfay said. - But sometimes you can trip on it.

Loneliness is dangerous! A person who is constantly hiding prefers to be in public. The crowd makes him nameless. He stops attracting attention to himself.

Reason is given to man so that he understands: it is impossible to live by reason alone.

Anything that can be settled with money is cheap.

Only those who have lost everything worth living for are free.

After all, these are all just words. You juggle them when you don’t have the strength to move on; then you forget them again.

It’s better to go with the flow without wasting your strength, because they are the only thing that cannot be restored. Stand! Hold out until the target appears again. And the less energy you spend, the better - let it remain in reserve.

Today you were visiting the bourgeoisie, for whom life is the kitchen, the salon and the bedroom, how can they understand that life is
a sailboat with too many sails, so
It could turn over at any moment.

Some people leave too late, and some people leave too early, he said, one must leave on time... that's what Zarathustra said.

I again enter the labyrinth of emotions, where mirages reign and where reason recedes into the background.

A person does not realize how much he is capable of forgetting. This is both a great good and a terrible evil.

"Stay with me, creature from another world! Do not leave me before I leave you! May your essence be blessed - the embodiment of unbridledness and peace!"

“I’m happy and I want you to be happy too.” I'm extremely happy. You, and only you, are on my mind when I wake up and when I fall asleep. I don't know anything else. I think about both of us, and it’s like silver bells are ringing in my head... And sometimes it’s like a violin is playing... The streets are full of us, like music... Sometimes human voices burst into this music, a picture flashes before my eyes, like a still from a movie... But music sounds... Sounds constantly...

All love wants to be eternal, and this is its eternal torment.

“I think,” Lillian said slowly, “that everything in the world contains an opposite; nothing can exist without its opposite, like light without shadow, like truth without lies, like illusion without reality - all these concepts are not only related to each other, but also inseparable from each other...
- How is life and death?

Joan, love is not a mirror pond into which you can stare forever. It has ebbs and flows. And the wreckage of shipwrecks, and sunken cities, and octopuses, and storms, and boxes of gold, and pearls... But pearls - those lie very deep.

You look like all a man’s dreams, like all his dreams and one more that he didn’t even know about.

– Who do you take me for, Joan? - he said. - Look out the window, the sky is all crimson, gold and blue... Does the sun ask what the weather was like yesterday? Is there a war going on in China or Spain? How many thousands of people were born and died at this moment? The sun rises - and that’s it. And you want me to ask! Your shoulders are like bronze under its rays, and I still have to ask you something? In the red light of dawn, your eyes are like the sea of ​​the ancient Greeks, violet and wine-colored, and I should be interested in God knows what? Are you with me, and I, like a fool, must stir up the withered leaves of the past? Who do you take me for, Joan?

Loving is when you want to grow old with someone.

Love without fear and without difficulties.
- This doesn’t happen.
- No, it happens. This is an integral part of the only love that makes sense at all - love for oneself.

Just don’t take anything to heart,” said Kester. - After all, what you accept, you want to keep. But nothing can be held back.

Whoever wants to hold on loses. They try to hold on to those who are ready to let go with a smile.

You don't always do the right thing, my son. Even if you are aware of it. But this is precisely the beauty of life sometimes.

A man,” I continued, “becomes selfish only because of the whims of women.” If there were no women, there would be no money, and men would be a tribe of heroes. In the trenches we lived without women, and it was not so important who and where had some kind of property. One thing was important: what kind of soldier you are. I’m not advocating the delights of trench life, I just want to highlight the problem of love from the right perspective. It awakens the worst instincts in a man - the passion for possession, for social status, for earnings, for peace. It’s not for nothing that dictators like their comrades to be married - that way they are less dangerous. And it’s not for nothing that Catholic priests don’t have wives, otherwise they wouldn’t be such brave missionaries.

Every man has some virtues, you just need to point them out to him.

Only those who have been alone more than once know the happiness of meeting their beloved. Everything else only weakens the tension and mystery of love.

You should always live as if you are saying goodbye forever.

Never, never and never again will you find yourself funny in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her sake. Even if it is the stupidest farce. Do whatever you want - stand on your head, talk nonsense, brag like a peacock, sing under her window. Just don't do one thing - don't be rational with her.
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But these thoughts ran and were carried away like the wind, they did not give rise to either tears or despair, for I knew for sure: there could be no return, nothing stands still: neither you yourself, nor the one who is next to you. All that remains from this in the end are rare evenings full of sadness - the sadness that every person feels, for everything is transitory, and he is the only creature on earth who knows it, just as he knows what is in it - his comfort. Although he doesn't understand it.

Or maybe autumn is to blame for everything; I feel it much more strongly than you. In the fall, pacts are torn and everything becomes invalid. And the person wants... Yes, what does he want?
- Love...
- Yes, love that remains.
- Love by the burning fireplace, by the light of a lamp, under the howl of the night wind and the rustle of falling leaves, love in which - you are sure - you are not in danger of any losses...

What can one person give to another except a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this?

25 quotes from Erich Maria Remarque, a writer with a huge heart, who wrote about love so deeply and soulfully that it is impossible to tear yourself away from his works:

1. A person can become close to you in three days. And the one who lives next to you for years may never know what your favorite color is.
2. When you find yours, you don’t even want to look at anything else.
3. The most fragile thing on Earth is the love of a woman. One wrong step, word, look and nothing can be restored.
4. The strongest feeling is disappointment. Not resentment, not jealousy or even hatred... after them at least something remains in the soul, after disappointment - emptiness.
5. What can one person give to another except a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let him in, you’ll want to hold him. And nothing can be held back...
6. An apology does not mean that you are wrong and the other person is right. It just means that the value of your relationship is more important than your own ego.
7. Your person is not the one who “feels good with you” - a hundred people can feel good with you. To yours - “it’s bad without you.”
8. If your soul reaches out to someone, don’t resist. She is the only one who knows exactly what we need.
9. We are just strangers who accidentally walked along some part of the path together without understanding each other.
10. Stay friends? Plant a small garden on the cooled lava of faded feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This only happens after small affairs, and even then it turns out quite false. Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end.
11. No person can become more of a stranger than someone you loved in the past.
12. We will never forget each other, but we will never get each other back.
13. Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs actions.
14. Remember one thing, boy: you will never, never, never again be funny in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her sake.
15. It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about this. They speak louder than any words.
16. Women should either be idolized or abandoned. Everything else is a lie.
17. We are so afraid of being intrusive that we appear indifferent.
18. The greatest hatred arises for those who managed to touch the heart and then spat into the soul.
19. I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how scary it is to love a woman and be poor.
20. It's hard to find words when you really have something to say.
21. The more you try to achieve a person who does not value you, the more painful the blows of his indifference will be for you.
22. Trying to forget someone means remembering him all the time.
23. People who believe that no one needs them are, in fact, often the most needed.
24. It doesn't matter how often you see each other - what matters is what these meetings mean to you.
25. The first person you think about in the morning and the last person you think about at night is either the reason for your happiness or the reason for your pain.

He was an amazingly delicate person with a sensitive, vulnerable soul and subtle talent, which he always doubted.
The writer’s fate was not easy: like many of his peers, he, while still a young man, went to the front, where he was seriously wounded. His manuscripts were burned by the Nazis, and his love was painful and painful. The books that he left to people are based on living feelings and images that happened before his eyes and lived in his heart.
The main themes he writes about are love and war. The love in his novels is passionate, all-consuming and permeates one’s entire life. War is terrible, breaking the will, faith and destiny of a person. He wrote about a lost generation that has no place among people who did not survive the horrors of war.
For you, the best quotes from Remarque’s books “Three Comrades”, “Arc de Triomphe”, “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Life on Borrow”. Each of these novels contains the entire life experience and heart of a famous German writer.

About love

“No,” he said quickly. - Not this. Stay friends? Plant a small garden on the cooled lava of faded feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This only happens after small affairs, and even then it turns out quite false. Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end"

No person can become more of a stranger than someone you loved in the past.

What can one person give to another except a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let him in, you’ll want to hold him. And nothing can be held back...

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

Human life is too long for love alone. It's just too long. Love is wonderful. But one of the two always gets bored. And the other one is left with nothing. He freezes and waits for something... He waits like crazy...

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

Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs actions.

All love wants to be eternal. This is her eternal torment.

A woman becomes wiser from love, but a man loses his head.

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

Oh happiness

Only an unhappy person knows what happiness is. A happy person feels the joy of life no more than a mannequin: he only demonstrates this joy, but it is not given to him. The light doesn't shine when it's light. He shines in the darkness.

Only cows are happy these days.

You can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. There is nothing to say here except that you are happy. And people talk about misfortune all night long.

In fact, a person is truly happy only when he pays the least attention to time and when he is not driven by fear. And yet, even if you are driven by fear, you can laugh. What else is left to do?

Happiness is the most uncertain and expensive thing in the world.

The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.

About a human

As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his destiny.

The more primitive a person is, the higher his opinion of himself.

There is nothing more tiring than being present when a person demonstrates his intelligence. Especially if you have no mind.

“Nothing is lost yet,” I repeated. - You only lose a person when he dies.

Cynics have the easiest character, idealists have the most intolerable character. Don't you think this is strange?

The less self-esteem a person has, the more he is worth.

It is a mistake to assume that all people have the same ability to feel.

If you want people not to notice anything, you don’t have to be careful.

About the woman

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

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

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

If a woman belongs to another, she is five times more desirable than one who can be had - an old rule.

Women don’t need to explain anything; you always need to act with them.

A woman is not metal furniture; she is a flower. She doesn't want to be businesslike. She needs sunny, sweet words. It’s better to say something nice to her every day than to work for her all your life with gloomy frenzy.

I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how scary it is to love a woman and be poor.

About life

What you can't get always seems better than what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.

They say the first seventy years are the hardest to live. And then things will go smoothly.

Life is a sailboat with too many sails, so it can capsize at any moment.

Repentance is the most useless thing in the world. Nothing can be returned. Nothing can be fixed. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life didn't mean to make us perfect. Anyone who is perfect belongs in a museum.

Principles must sometimes be violated, otherwise there is no joy in them.

It is better to die when you want to live than to live until you want to die.

And no matter what happens to you, don’t take anything to heart. Few things in the world remain important for long.

Interesting Facts:

Real name: Erich Paul Remarque. He changed his middle name in honor of his mother, who died in 1918.

Erich was so ashamed of his first published story that he subsequently bought the entire edition.

Remarque wrote the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” in just 6 weeks.

Remarque's marriage to his wife Jutta lasted just over 4 years, after which they divorced. But, in 1938, Remarque married Jutta again in order to help her get out of Germany and get the opportunity to live in Switzerland, where he himself lived at that time, and later they left for the USA together. The divorce was officially finalized only in 1957. The writer paid Yutta a monetary allowance until the end of his life, and also bequeathed 50 thousand dollars to her.

When Marlene Dietrich left for the USA, Remarque wrote letters to her every day.

Remarque was nominated for the Nobel Prize, but the protest of the League of German Officers prevented him. The writer was accused of having written a novel commissioned by the Entente, and of stealing the manuscript from a murdered comrade. He was called a traitor to his homeland, a playboy, a cheap celebrity.

A selection of the best quotes from Remarque’s books “Three Comrades”, “Arc de Triomphe”, “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Life on Borrow”. Each of these novels contains the entire life experience and heart of a famous German writer.

1. “No,” he said quickly. - Not this. Stay friends? Plant a small garden on the cooled lava of faded feelings? No, this is not for you and me. This only happens after small affairs, and even then it turns out quite false. Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end."

2. No person can become more of a stranger than someone you loved in the past.

3. What can one person give to another, except a drop of warmth? And what could be more than this? Just don't let anyone get close to you. And if you let him in, you’ll want to hold him. And nothing can be held back...

4. How strange are young people today? You hate the past, you despise the present, and you are indifferent to the future. This is unlikely to lead to a good ending.

5. Human life is too long for love alone. It's just too long. Love is wonderful. But one of the two always gets bored. And the other one is left with nothing. He freezes and waits for something... He waits like crazy...

6. Only those who have been alone more than once know the happiness of meeting their beloved.
7. Love does not tolerate explanations. She needs actions.

8. All love wants to be eternal. This is her eternal torment.

9. A woman becomes wiser from love, but a man loses his head.

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

11. Only an unhappy person knows what happiness is. A happy person feels the joy of life no more than a mannequin: he only demonstrates this joy, but it is not given to him. The light doesn't shine when it's light. He shines in the darkness.

12. Only cows are happy these days.

13. You can talk about happiness for five minutes, no more. There is nothing to say here except that you are happy. And people talk about misfortune all night long.

14. In fact, a person is truly happy only when he pays the least attention to time and when he is not driven by fear. And yet, even if you are driven by fear, you can laugh. What else is left to do?

15. Loneliness is easier when you don't love.

16. The most wonderful city is the one where a person is happy.

17. There is no shame in being born a fool. But it’s a shame to die a fool.

18. The more primitive a person is, the higher his opinion of himself.

19. There is nothing more tiring than being present when a person demonstrates his intelligence. Especially if you have no mind.

20. “Nothing is lost yet,” I repeated. “You only lose a person when he dies.”

21. Reason is given to man so that he understands: it is impossible to live by reason alone.

22. Whoever wants to hold on loses. They try to hold on to those who are ready to let go with a smile.

23. The less pride a person has, the more he is worth.

24. It is a mistake to assume that all people have the same ability to feel.

25. If you want people not to notice anything, don’t be careful.

26. Remember one thing, boy: never, never and never again will you find yourself funny in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her sake.

27. It seemed to me that a woman should not tell a man that she loves him. Let her shining, happy eyes speak about this. They speak louder than any words.

28. Women should either be idolized or abandoned. Everything else is a lie.

29. If a woman belongs to another, she is five times more desirable than one who can be had - an old rule.

30. Women don’t need to explain anything; you always need to act with them.

31. A woman is not metal furniture; she is a flower. She doesn't want to be businesslike. She needs sunny, sweet words. It’s better to say something nice to her every day than to work for her all your life with gloomy frenzy.

32. I stood next to her, listened to her, laughed and thought how scary it is to love a woman and be poor.

33. What you can’t get always seems better than what you have. This is the romance and idiocy of human life.

34. They say the first seventy years are the hardest to live. And then things will go smoothly.

35. Life is a sailboat with too many sails, so it can capsize at any moment.

36. Repentance is the most useless thing in the world. Nothing can be returned. Nothing can be fixed. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life didn't mean to make us perfect. Anyone who is perfect belongs in a museum.

37. Principles must sometimes be violated, otherwise there is no joy in them.