Thomas Mann Life Quotations

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

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

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

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.