Thomas Mann Famous Quotes
"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man."
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
"The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life."
"We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."
"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something I don't know where I would be without it.
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
"This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life."
"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it."
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann Quotations
"Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying."
Irish Proverb
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Theresa of Jesus
Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.
Andrew Schneider
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
Bobby Clarke
Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would.
Ronald Reagan
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
Steven Weinberg
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William H Borah
Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy