Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live... — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, whether my gifts and qualities find the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Ephemeral, highly ephemeral is the world of formations; ephemeral, highly ephemeral are our clothes and hairstyles, and our hair and our bodies… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something… — 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
“Asadar, in momentul in care un om face primul pas dilatand acea unitate imaginara a eului sau pana la o dualitate, omul… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Vasudeva listened with great attention. Listening carefully, he let everything enter his mind, birthplace and childhood, all that learning, all that searching,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And many years later, as an adult student of history, Knecht was to perceive more distinctly that history cannot come into being… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Pjesnik čiji nas stihovi ushićuju možda je bio tužan usamljenik a glazbenik neki sjetan sanjar, ali i tada njegovo djelo dijeli vedrinu… — 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
Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes. — 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
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
