Love and money are always at the same time: 5 apt Remarque quotes that prove it

What is more important love or money? Wise from life experience, Remarque claims through the mouths of his characters that these things are so interconnected that it is not easy to separate them.

In the stories and novels of Erich Maria Remarque, we found the 5 most striking quotes about the inseparable connection of love and money.

“A true idealist always wants money. After all, money is minted freedom. And freedom is life. A man becomes greedy only by obeying the desires of a woman.

There were no women in the trenches, and it didn’t matter who owned what, all that mattered was what he was like as a man. This does not speak in favor of the trenches, but it sheds a real light on love. It awakens bad instincts in a person – the desire for ownership, for meaning, for earnings, for peace. It is not for nothing that dictators like their guarantors to be married because they are less dangerous. And it is not for nothing that Catholic priests do not know women – otherwise they would never be such brave missionaries.

“A woman who saves on herself arouses in men only one desire – to save on her!”

“Let a woman live for a few days in a life you cannot ordinarily offer her, and you will surely lose her. She will try to find this life again, but with someone else who can always provide for her.

“I stood beside her, listening to her, laughing, and thinking how terrible it is to love a woman and be poor.”

“In a dark age, money cannot be spoken of with disdain. Many women even fall in love because of money. And love makes many men greedy. So money stimulates ideals – love, on the other hand, materialism.