Thomas Mann quotes
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life."
"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them."
"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articul"
"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own."
"The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions,"
"We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."
"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such c"
