“even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Everything was a lie, everything stank, everything stank of lies, everything feigned meaning and happiness and beauty, and yet everything was decaying… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Over his soul in fleeting waves of happiness, the dreamlike presentiment of a bright earth ruled by the sun began to flicker,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don't delude yourselves, don't content yourselves year after year with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He envied them for the one thing that was missing from him and that they had, the importance they were able to… — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The fact that the student enjoyed his happiness only in a dream should not diminish it, for most people experience their dreams… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In the beginning his dream and his happiness, in the end it was his bitter fate...But in the midst of the freedom… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou have no happiness in your heart, no power, no will that does not live in us as a presentiment, a reflection,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you that a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
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