They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

In 1958 Douglas Sirk directed the film A Time to Love and a Time to Die in Germany based on Remarque's novel. Goddard died in 1990 and was interred next to her husband. In 1927 Remarque made a second literary start with the novel Station at the Horizon (Station am Horizont) which was serialised in the sports journal "Sport im Bild" for which Remarque was working.