They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is… — 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
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be… — 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
I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is… — 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
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every… — 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
