The Magic Mountain Quotes

“Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves.”
― Thomas Mann

“ჩვენ ჩვეულებრივ ამბებს აღვწერთ, მაგრამ ჩვეულებრივი ამბავი არაჩვეულებრივი ხდება, როცა იგი არაჩვეულებრივი მიზეზებითაა გამოწვეული.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“A hell hound is coming. Howling. A huge explosive shell. A disgusting sugarloaf from the infernal regions.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“a pair of young dandies who were nicknamed Max and Moritz bore a great reputation for breaking out of bounds.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“A soul without a body is as inhuman and horrible as a body without a soul—though the latter is the rule and the former the exception. It is the body, as a rule, which flourishes exceedingly, which draws everything to itself, which usurps the predominant place and lives repulsively emancipated from the soul. A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement. In most cases he is little better than a carcass.”
― Thomas Mann