Love Quotes by Hermann Hesse

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

— Hermann Hesse

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

— Hermann Hesse

“genius in love is the yearning to handover”

— Hermann Hesse

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

— Hermann Hesse

Every experience has its element of magic.

— Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot.

— Hermann Hesse

There is a miracle in every new beginning

— Hermann Hesse

Happiness is love, nothing else.

— Hermann Hesse

“This are things, and things can be loved. But I cannot love words.”

— Hermann Hesse

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

— Hermann Hesse

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

— Hermann Hesse

“soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than violence.”

— Hermann Hesse

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Hermann Hesse

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

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

— Hermann Hesse

“He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and…

— Hermann Hesse

“All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I…

— Hermann Hesse

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved…

— Hermann Hesse

“It was stupid and difficult, it was complicated and exhausting to love in such a way, but it was wonderful. Wonderful was…

— Hermann Hesse

“And they didn't like to pay with trust and love, but rather with money and goods. They betrayed each other and expected…

— Hermann Hesse

“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable…

— Hermann Hesse

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing…

— Hermann Hesse

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be…

— Hermann Hesse

Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the…

— Hermann Hesse

Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so…

— Hermann Hesse

“Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow…

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Hermann Hesse

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of…

— Hermann Hesse

Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely…

— Hermann Hesse

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every…

— Hermann Hesse

“As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavour to love them, to be…

— Hermann Hesse

“You don't force him, don't beat him, don't give him orders, because you know that 'soft' is stronger than 'hard', Water stronger…

— Hermann Hesse

“-Yo te gusto- continuó ella-, por el motivo que ya te he dicho; he roto tu soledad, te he recogido precisamente ante…

— Hermann Hesse

“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Suddenly he thought he saw a trait of soul-less habit in her dear coarse face, something mechanical and unmysterious in her friendly…

— Hermann Hesse

“Let the things be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like…

— Hermann Hesse

“There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which…

— Hermann Hesse

“Before all else I learned that these playthings were not mere idle trifles invented by manufacturers and dealers for the purposes of…

— Hermann Hesse

Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

— Hermann Hesse