“Ah, it is hard to find this track of divine in the midst of this life we lead, in this besotted humdrum… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“experiences, though forgotten, could never be erased. Their series was the story of my life, their starry light the undying value of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, with amazement… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The life of the grownups had caught me, at first by a lock of hair or a finger, but soon it would… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The golden trail was blazed and I was reminded of the eternal, of Mozart, of the stars. For an hour I could… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is not my place to judge another person’s life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds… — 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
