Quotes from book
The Magic Mountain

Name: The Magic Mountain
Author: Thomas Mann

Thomas MannOriginal title Der Zauberberg (German, 1924)

The Magic Mountain is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature.

“A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R. I. P.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

requiescat in pace — you know. That seems to me the most beautiful expression — I like it much better than ‘He is a jolly good fellow,’ which is simply rowdy.
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5

“Everything is politics.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6

“What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Was wir Trauer nennen, ist vielleicht nicht sowohl der Schmerz über die Unmöglichkeit, unsere Toten ins Leben kehren zu sehen, als darüber, dies gar nicht wünschen zu können.
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Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 7

“Disease was a perverse, a dissolute form of life.”

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Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5

“Psycho-analyses — how disgusting.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

"Hans Castorp" in Ch. 1
The Magic Mountain (1924)

“My aversion from music rests on political grounds.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4

“One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.”

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Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4

“Latin phrase meaning "It pleases to experiment", Ch. 4”
Placet experiri

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain (1924)

“There is both rhyme and reason in what I say, I have made a dream poem of humanity. I will cling to it. I will be good. I will let death have no mastery over my thoughts. For therein lies goodness and love of humankind, and in nothing else.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: I will let death have no mastery over my thoughts! For therein, and in nothing else, lies goodness and love of humankind.

“Two principles, according to the Settembrinian cosmogony, were in perpetual conflict for possession of the world: force and justice, tyranny and freedom, superstition and knowledge; the law of permanence and the law of change, of ceaseless fermentation issuing in progress.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4

“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6

“I, for one, have never in my life come across a perfectly healthy human being.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

The psychoanalyst "Dr. Krokowski" in Ch. 1
The Magic Mountain (1924)

“This conflict between the powers of love and chastity … it ended apparently in the triumph of chastity. Love was suppressed, held in darkness and chains, by fear, conventionality, aversion, or a tremulous yearning to be pure…. But this triumph of chastity was only an apparent, a pyrrhic victory. It would break through the ban of chastity, it would emerge — if in a form so altered as to be unrecognizable.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4