Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“my path had led me at that time into a new life, which had now grown old and is dead” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He had very few doubts, and when the facts contradicted his views on life, he shut his eyes in disapproval.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A wolf of the Steppes that had lost its way and strayed into the towns and the life of the herd, a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He saw people living for their sake, saw them achieving endless things for their sake, traveling, waging wars, suffering endlessly, enduring endlessly,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering… — 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
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I had often marked the contrast between their almost ludicrous gaiety and my lonely existence, sometimes with scorn, sometimes with a feeling… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...she seemed to know more of life than is known to the wisest of the wise. It might be the highest wisdom… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He saw mankind going trough life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time.… — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Your life will not be flat and dull even though you know that your war will never be victorious. It is far… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You are surprised that I should be unhappy when I can dance and am so sure of myself in the superficial things… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so… — 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
“Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The weeks up there were almost the most beautiful in my life. I breathed the pure, clear air, drank the icy water… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“All children, as long as they still live in the mystery, are continuously occupied in their souls with the only thing that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Although I know very little of the Steppenwolf's life, I have all the same good reason to suppose that he was brought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Whoever wants to live and enjoys his life today must not be like you and me. Whoever wants music instead of noise,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light,… — 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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