Top 13 Death In Venice Quotes
#1. They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.
Lewis Tappan
#2. I've learned to turn life's setbacks into opportunities for creation.
Benyf
#3. You are destiny for greatness.
Your future is in the hands of the Lord.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.
C.S. Lewis
#6. Every man and woman present thought how the neatly drawn lines and words upon the maps were in truth ice-covered pools and rivers, silent woods, frozen ditches and high, bare hills and every one of them thought how many sheep and cattle and wild creatures died in this season.
Susanna Clarke
#7. Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.
Philip Kitcher
#8. Venice was a hallucinatory incubus, the most artificial environment in the world: Disneyland for grown-ups. It reeked of sex and its putrescent partner, death. Thomas Mann had caught its rouged, feverish aura perfectly.
Jonathan Galassi
#9. A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.
Fran Lebowitz
#10. To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that he crafted a superbly supple and elegant style, apparently well suited to the kind of prose Aschenbach is supposed to write.
Philip Kitcher
#11. In every failure is the seed of success ...
Our failures are stepping stones in the mechanics of creation, bringing us even closer to our goals. In reality, there is no such thing as failure. What we call failure is just a mechanism through which we can learn to do things right.
Deepak Chopra
#12. Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.
Laurie Colwin
#13. Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose the murder weapon with which the loved one was lost in the first place.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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