“But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest” — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“my path had led me at that time into a new life, which had now grown old and is dead” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Quoth Siddhartha: "What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He saw: this water ran and ran, incessantly it ran, and was nevertheless always there, was always at all times the same… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the… — 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
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I had walked but a short time when I met a man with a tin number on his hat, and he asked… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“then all these people were his brothers and sisters. Each one of them carried the memory of a beloved mother and a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Troubled, yet also with laughter, he recalled that time. He remembered that at that time he had boasted of three things to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I had often toyed with pictures of the future, dreamed of rôles which might be assigned to me—as a poet, maybe, or… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of… — 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
“For a long time, he pondered his transformation, listened to the bird, as it sang for joy. Had not this bird died… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I was mad, as I thought at moments; perhaps I was not like other men? But I was able to do… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Struggling, despairing, Klein fought with his demon. All the new understanding and sense of redemption this fateful time had yielded had surged,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, but official duties left him no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Deep was his sleep and free of dreams; it had been a long time since he had known such sleep. When he… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The world... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment...” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When you listen to radio you are a witness of the everlasting war between idea and appearance, between time and eternity, between… — 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
