Top 56 Quotes by Thomas Mann

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

Speech is civilization itself.

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

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

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

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.