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

What’s more important than love or money? Wise with life experience, Remarque, through the lips of his characters, asserts that these things are so intertwined that it is not easy to separate them.

We have found in the stories and novels of Erich Maria Remarque 5 the most striking quotes about the inseparable link between love and money.

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

There were no women in the trenches, and it didn’t matter who owned what, only his personality as a man mattered. This doesn’t speak for the trenches, but sheds a real light on love. It awakens in a man bad instincts – the desire for possession, meaning, gain, 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 have been such courageous missionaries.

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

“Let a woman live a few days in a life that you usually cannot give her, and you will surely lose her. She will try to find that life again, but with someone else who can always support her.

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

“In a dark time, one cannot speak of money with contempt. Many women even fall in love because of money. And love makes many men greedy. Thus, money stimulates ideals – love, on the contrary, materialism.