309 Quotes by Thomas Mann

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

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

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

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

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.