Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He who is capable of really reading a writer will have his every question answered by the works themselves. For example, Kafka… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A wolf of the Steppes that had lost its way and strayed into the towns and the life of the herd, a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When Siddhartha left the grove, where the Buddha, the perfected one, stayed behind, where Govinda stayed behind, then he felt that in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying… — 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
“You are surprised that I should be unhappy when I can dance and am so sure of myself in the superficial things… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You have a picture of life within you, a faith, a challenge, and you were ready for deeds and sufferings and sacrifices,… — 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
“The law of service. He who wishes to live long must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I wish that they shall all stay with the teachings, that they shall reach their goal! It is not my place to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He had very few doubts, and when the facts contradicted his views on life, he shut his eyes in disapproval.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every stage, So every virtue, so our grasp of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With the poet it was exactly the same as with the hero, and all strong, handsome, high-spirited, non-commonplace figures and enterprises: in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“By degrees, however, he fashioned for himself out of this tendency a philosophy that was actually serviceable to life. He gained strength… — 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
