“How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter, how eagerly I imbibed their moods of loneliness… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On no… — 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
When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“O music! A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly only; you steep your being in it; it takes possession… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“By degrees during the afternoon he warmed and became alive, and only towards evening, on his good days, was he productive, active… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Just try it once — a tree, or at least a considerable section of sky, is to be seen anywhere. It does… — 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
