“All I wanted was to try and realize whatever was in me. Why was that so difficult?” — 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
Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“She rose to her feet and preceded me into the garden twilight. Tall and queenly, the woman of mystery strolled among the… — 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
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
“But where we have given of our love and respect not from habit but of our own free will, where we have… — 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
“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
“I saw Demian's face and remarked that it was not a boy's face but a man's and then I saw, or rather… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But whereas we, in our conception, represented the will of nature to renew itself, to individualize and march forward, the others lived… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“ "The things we see," said Pistorius gently, "are the things which are already in us. There is no reality beyond what we… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we… — 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
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
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
“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the… — 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
