I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

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.