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
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live... — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“no matter how close two human beings may be, there is always a gulf between them which only love can bridge, and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You don't force him, beat him, and give him orders because you know that 'soft' is stronger than 'hard,' that water is… — 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
“Young woman, fresh face, I don't want to know your name. I don't want to cherish and fatten my love for you.… — 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
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams… — 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
“Se plamadise cu incetul, intre ei, alaturi de limbajul ratiunii, si un limbaj al sufletului si al semnelor, la fel cum intre… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of… — 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
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy. — 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
“Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift… — 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
“Scopul nostru nu este de a ne contopi unul intr-altul, ci a ne recunoaste reciproc si a invata sa vedem si sa… — 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 don't know whether I love Gina. I doubt it very much. I would not make any sacrifices for her. I do… — 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
