Thomas Mann1875–1955The quotations of
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate
1875–1955
13 quotes, most often on Ideas, Life & Death and Love.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6- The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6, section, A Good Soldier as translated by Woods (1996), p. 506
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Essays of Three Decades (1942)If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Tonio Kröger (1902)- Buddenbrooks [Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie, Roman] (1901). Pt 8, Ch. 2
Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 7- The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 1
Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6I stand between two worlds, am at home in neither, and in consequence have rather a hard time of it.
Tonio Kröger (1902), Ch. 9, as translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan- Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 4, as translated by David Luke
- The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 2, “At Tienappels’,” (1924), trans. by H.T. Lowe-Porter (1928).
- On German fascism, in “An Appeal to Reason” [“Deutsche Ansprache. Ein Appell an die Vernunft”] in Berliner Tageblatt (18 October 1930); as translated by Helen T. Lowe-Porter in Order of the Day, Political Essays and Speeches of Two Decades (1942) …
