What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as it is grief at not being able to want to do so

Quote by Thomas Mann

Topics: Grief Quotes

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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

Hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a...

Hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a...

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.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

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

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

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,...

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.