Quotes by Thomas Mann

Explore a curated collection of 37 quotes by Thomas Mann. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! — Thomas Mann
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number — Thomas Mann
Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? — Thomas Mann
For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosen — Thomas Mann
Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone. — Thomas Mann
Cases of typhoid take the following course:When the fever is at its height, life calls out to the patient: calls out to — Thomas Mann
Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist ow — Thomas Mann
Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful, after an intellec — Thomas Mann
The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge. — Thomas Mann
Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject — Thomas Mann
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. — Thomas Mann
Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent. — Thomas Mann
The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. — Thomas Mann
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy again — Thomas Mann
The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life. — Thomas Mann
But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing in the world. — Thomas Mann
Speech is civilization itself. — Thomas Mann
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. — Thomas Mann
Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. — Thomas Mann
Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while lat — Thomas Mann