Life Quotes by Hermann Hesse

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.

— Hermann Hesse

“Suffering was life, full of suffering was the world.”

— Hermann Hesse

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

— Hermann Hesse

Words can not express the joy of new life.

— Hermann Hesse

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

— Hermann Hesse

Is not every life, every work fine?

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“even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone.”

— Hermann Hesse

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

— Hermann Hesse

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at…

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“I lived in those dreams—I was always a heavy dreamer—more than in real life; those shadows consumed my strength and life.”

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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

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“Even souls that are intensely alive will soon age and grow weary of this bustling, frenetic, satiated life.”

— Hermann Hesse

Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying…

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What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of…

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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often…

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“Everything was a lie, everything stank, everything stank of lies, everything feigned meaning and happiness and beauty, and yet everything was decaying…

— Hermann Hesse

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has…

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Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple…

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To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,…

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“I wish that they shall all stay with the teachings, that they shall reach their goal! It is not my place to…

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As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth…

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What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it…

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“With the poet it was exactly the same as with the hero, and all strong, handsome, high-spirited, non-commonplace figures and enterprises: in…

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What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but…

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Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for…

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“I understood it all. I understood Pablo. I understood Mozart, and somewhere behind me I heard his ghastly laughter. I knew that…

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I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of…

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Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to…

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“As every blossom fades and all youth sinks into old age, so every life’s design, each flower of wisdom, attains its prime…

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“Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every stage, So every virtue, so our grasp of…

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“He who is capable of really reading a writer will have his every question answered by the works themselves. For example, Kafka…

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“When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beautiful musical allegory…

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“When Siddhartha left the grove, where the Buddha, the perfected one, stayed behind, where Govinda stayed behind, then he felt that in…

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“Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual.…

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“The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our…

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If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my…

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I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in…

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“Quien no lleva dentro un lobo no tiene por eso que ser feliz tampoco.”

— Hermann Hesse