His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It enraged and exhausted me to observe how the common daily life callously demanded its due and devoured the abundance of optimism… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I… — 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
“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
“My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He had too much to think about. In the course of his long, useless marches he had sunk deeper and deeper into… — 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
“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
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
“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 that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind… — 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
“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
“From the sacred center of the world streams forth an irrepressible desire to overcome the silence between things. Art, the ever flowing… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbour is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if weanswer it in the affirmative, ifwe accept it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With a smile, the man at the oar moved from side to side: "It is beautiful, sir, it is as you say.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Where was the knowledgeable one who wove his spell to bring his familiarity with the Atman out of the sleep into the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised… He saw them toiling, saw them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“By degrees, however, he fashioned for himself out of this tendency a philosophy that was actually serviceable to life. He gained strength… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Every person encounters the open door here and there in the course of life, and it occurs to everyone at one time… — 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
