Thomas Mann
- A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
(topic: 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.
(topic: love)
- All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
(topic: medicine)
- 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.
(topic: new year)
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