“Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Deeply he felt, more deeply than ever before, in this hour, the indestructibility of every life, the eternity of every moment.” — 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
“The law of service. He who wishes to live long must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so… — 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
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Ah, it is hard to find this track of divine in the midst of this life we lead, in this besotted humdrum… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The golden trail was blazed and I was reminded of the eternal, of Mozart, of the stars. For an hour I could… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The things we see," Pistorius said softly, "are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The realization of what wisdom actually was slowly blossomed and ripened in Siddhartha—and he discovered what the goal of his long search… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And when I had learned it, I looked at my life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“experiences, though forgotten, could never be erased. Their series was the story of my life, their starry light the undying value of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You have a picture of life within you, a faith, a challenge, and you were ready for deeds and sufferings and sacrifices,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I have no idea whether parents can be of help, and I do not blame mine. It was my own affair to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The life of the grownups had caught me, at first by a lock of hair or a finger, but soon it would… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Just try it once — a tree, or at least a considerable section of sky, is to be seen anywhere. It does… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He believed that his life and destiny were at the centre of the world's attention, just as everyone does.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether my life has been useless and merely a misunderstanding, or whether it has a meaning.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. — 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
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
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is not my place to judge another person’s life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose,… — 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
