Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann German writer (1875 - 1955)


Thomas Mann -
- A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann -
- Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Thomas Mann -
- A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann -
- 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.

Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
- For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

Thomas Mann -
- All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.