That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. — 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
This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have… — 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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad… — 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
But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should… — 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
