We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

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.