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

Quote by Thomas Mann

Topics: Death Quotes

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

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

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

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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

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

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

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

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

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

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

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.