Quotes by Thomas Mann

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

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

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.