Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state

Quote by Thomas Mann

Topics: Space Quotes, Time Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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...

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

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

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

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

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...

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

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

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the...

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work,...

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work,...

I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my...

I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my...