But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the… — 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
Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but… — 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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love… — 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
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few… — 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
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind… — 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
Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they… — 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
