Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas Mann
Age: 80 †
Born: 1875
Born: June 6
Died: 1955
Died: August 12
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Social Critic
University Teacher
Writer
Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Perreo
Writer
Somebody
Written
Difficult
Writing
People
More quotes by Thomas Mann
For the myth is the foundation of life it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
Thomas Mann
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
Thomas Mann
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
Thomas Mann
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
Thomas Mann
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Thomas Mann
(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.
Thomas Mann
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
Thomas Mann
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Thomas Mann
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
Thomas Mann
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.
Thomas Mann
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.
Thomas Mann
We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Thomas Mann
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann
Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
Thomas Mann
I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
Thomas Mann
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann
And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.
Thomas Mann
