“He believed that his life and destiny were at the centre of the world's attention, just as everyone does.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part… — 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
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind… — 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
“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
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full… — 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
