Death Quote by Thomas Mann — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”

“Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!”

“He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.”

“Time and the crabs and the sweethearting crib”

“... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.”

“Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it.”

“As a man is taught, so he believes. Thoughts being things, they may be planted like seeds in the mind of the child and completely dominate his mental content. Given the favourable soil of the will to believe, whether the seed-thoughts be sound or unsound, whether they be of pure superstition or of realizable truth, they take root and flourish, and make the man what he is mentally.”

“Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.”

“And the numerous delays due to vandalism on the tracks or leaves on the line or sun on the line or a body under a train”