Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow… — 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
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in… — 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
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
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — 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
