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Thomas Mann quotes about death

Deutsch Writer June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955

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Thomas Mann quote: "For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no..."
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and..."
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Thomas Mann
But was it not true that there were people, certain individuals, whom one found it impossible to picture dead, precisely because they were so vulgar? That was to say: they seemed so fit for life, so good at it, that they would never die, as if they were unworthy of the consecration of death. Thomas Mann
And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original procreation of matter only a disease, a growth produced by morbid stimulation of the immaterial? The first step toward evil, toward desire and death, was taken precisely then, when there took place that first increase in the density of the spiritual, that pathologically luxuriant morbid growth, produced by the irritant of some unknown infiltration; this, in part... Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel..."
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann quote: "All interest in disease and death is only another expression..."
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann
The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their faces, a little less caustic than usual at least, expressed a gentle satisfaction at death's impartiality. Thomas Mann

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