Thomas Mann

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1875 age 0

   Born

2. 1955 age 80

   Died

3. 1971 age 80

   CreditDeath in Venicescreenwriter

• FSFerdinando Scarfiotti1 title
• MTMarco Tulli1 title
• SMSilvana Mangano1 title
• MBMarisa Berenson1 title
• RMRuggero Mastroianni1 title
• MBMark Burns1 title
• LVLuchino Visconti1 title
• RVRomolo Valli1 title
• LFLeslie French1 title
• PTPiero Tosi1 title

• Siblings

  • HMHeinrich Mann

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• To place Russian communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, superficial, in the worse case it is fascism. He who insists on this equality may be a democrat; in truth and in his heart, he is already a fascist, and will surely fight fascism with insincerity and appearance, but with complete hatred only communism.

  Thomas Mann, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think of my suffering, of the problem of my suffering. What am I suffering from? From knowledge — is it going to destroy me? What am I suffering from? From sexuality — is it going to destroy me? How I hate it, this knowledge which forces even art to join it! How I hate it, this sensuality, which claims everything fine and good is its consequence and effect. Alas, it is the poison that lurks in everything fine and good! — How am I to free myself of knowledge? By religion? How am I to free myself of sexuality? By eating rice?

  Thomas Mann, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Here and there, among a thousand other peddlers, are slyly hissing dealers who urge you to come along with them to allegedly "very beautiful" girls, and not only to girls. They keep at it, walk alongside, praising their wares until you answer roughly. They don't know that you have resolved to eat nothing but rice just to escape from sexuality!

  Thomas Mann, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side.

  Thomas Mann, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It is as though something had begun to slip – as though I haven't the firm grip I had on events. – What is success? It is an inner, an indescribable force, resourcefulness, power of vision; a consciousness that I am, by my mere existence, exerting pressure on the movement of life about me. It is my belief in the adaptability of life to my own ends. Fortune and success lie within ourselves. We must hold them firmly – deep within us. For as soon as something begins to slip, to relax, to get tired, within us, then everything without us will rebel and struggle to withdraw from our influence. One thing follows another, blow after blow – and the man is finished.

  Thomas Mann, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Beauty can pierce one like pain.

  Thomas Mann, CC BY-SA 4.0