“Ephemeral, highly ephemeral is the world of formations; ephemeral, highly ephemeral are our clothes and hairstyles, and our hair and our bodies… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions. — 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
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us. — 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
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live... — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Asadar, in momentul in care un om face primul pas dilatand acea unitate imaginara a eului sau pana la o dualitate, omul… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow… — 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