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. - Thomas Mann. View more images...

The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life. - Thomas Mann. View more images...

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. - Thomas Mann. View more images...

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. - Thomas Mann. View more images...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. - Thomas Mann. View more images...

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. - Thomas Mann. View more images...

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. - Thomas Mann. View more images...

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. - Thomas Mann. View more images...

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. - Thomas Mann. View more images...