Quotes by Thomas Mann

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  • A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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  • A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
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  • For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.
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  • All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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  • Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
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  • A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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  • Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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