The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“My soul breathed once more. My eyes were opened. There were moments when I felt with a glow that I had only… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And when I had learned it, I looked at my life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Whoever wants to live and enjoys his life today must not be like you and me. Whoever wants music instead of noise,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light,… — 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
“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In short, his aim is to make a home for himself between two extremes in a temperate zone without violent storms and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“As every blossom fades and all youth sinks into old age, so every life’s design, each flower of wisdom, attains its prime… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something… — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether my life has been useless and merely a misunderstanding, or whether it has a meaning.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish… — 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
