Thomas Mann

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

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

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

- Thomas Mann