Quote

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

Thomas Mann

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Mood
Eternity
Quite
Courses
Course
Unaltered
Hours
Cools
Time
Clarifies
Maintained

More quotes by Thomas Mann

Image
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Thomas Mann
Image
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
Image
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
Image
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Thomas Mann
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Speech is civilization itself.
Thomas Mann
Image
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Thomas Mann
Image
(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
Image
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.
Thomas Mann
Image
Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
Thomas Mann
Image
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
Thomas Mann
Image
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
Image
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann
Image
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
Image
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
Thomas Mann
Image
I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
Thomas Mann
Image
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
Thomas Mann
Image
We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Thomas Mann