For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“But admiration and sadness, admiration and worry, is not that almost a definition of love?" "There are people with whom it is… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“People, after all, only love and respect other people so long as they remain unable to judge them. Longing is a child… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“the lover is more blessed than the beloved because God resides in the former, not the latter—probably” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Entangled and besotted as he was, he no longer wished for anything else than to pursue the beloved object that inflamed him,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“His love of the sea had profound roots: the hardworking artist's desire to rest, his longing to get away from the demanding… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“His games have a deeper meaning and fascination that adults can no longer fathom and require nothing more than three pebbles, or… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share
“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share
“But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?” — Thomas Mann Copy Share
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. — Thomas Mann Copy Share
“O, čarobna organsko lepoto, koja se ne sastojiš ni iz uljane boje ni iz kamena, već iz materije žive i raspadljive, pune grozničave tajne… — Thomas Mann Copy Share
“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share
“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share
“A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands… — Thomas Mann Copy Share
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share
“One always needs to be reminded; one is by no means always in possession of one’s whole self. Our consciousness is feeble; only in… — Thomas Mann Copy Share
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one? — Thomas Mann Copy Share
