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

Quote by Thomas Mann

Topics: Death Quotes

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

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

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

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

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

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

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or...

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or...

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.

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.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out...

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out...

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

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

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

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

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.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly...

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...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

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,...

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...