Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“human beings, each one of whom is a priceless, unique experiment of nature, are being shot to death in carloads.1 If” — 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
All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“..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 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
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I was conscious all the while in my heart how my fate raced on at breakneck speed, racing and chasing like a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“My God, rather than come to such a pass it would have been better for the Jews and every one else, let… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,… — 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
“He thought the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art, perhaps also of all things of the mind. We… — 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
“Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every stage, So every virtue, so our grasp of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You see, King, we have a legend - I used to believe that it was all fairy-tale rubbish and empty smoke. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is… — 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
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
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
Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The war against death, dear Harry, is always a beautiful, noble, and wonderful, and glorious thing, and so, it follows, is the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“As every blossom fades and all youth sinks into old age, so every life’s design, each flower of wisdom, attains its prime… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Your life will not be flat and dull even though you know that your war will never be victorious. It is far… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I want to tell you something today, something that I have known for a long while, and you know it too; but… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“... 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 Image
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 Image
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. — 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 important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“..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 Image
“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 Image
