Quotes by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

Explore a curated collection of 11 quotes by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales. 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.

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who m — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously consi — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to t — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, n — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly us — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing fro — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the l — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disprop — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales