Quotes by Thomas Mann

109 quotes found

Novelist · German · 1875–1955

German novelist (1875–1955)

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“But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes protrude from the head, and lends the features a corpselike and terrifying aspec...”

— Thomas Mann

boredom corpselike malaise

“Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.”

— Thomas Mann

difficult days

“Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.”

— Thomas Mann

habit tradition

“If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.”

— Thomas Mann

ideas

“It is love not reason that is stronger than death.”

— Thomas Mann

life

“A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.”

— Thomas Mann

medicine sickness

“Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate and she is fate.”