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

Quote by Thomas Mann

Topics: Death Quotes

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

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

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

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

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.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature,...

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature,...

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

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

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

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...

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming...

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

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

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

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

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

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.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as...

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as...

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.