“even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone.” — 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
“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
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 will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. — 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
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
“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
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. — 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
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
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He saw people living for their sake, saw them achieving endless things for their sake, traveling, waging wars, suffering endlessly, enduring endlessly,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“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
“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
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The things we see," Pistorius said softly, "are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I had often marked the contrast between their almost ludicrous gaiety and my lonely existence, sometimes with scorn, sometimes with a feeling… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The realization of what wisdom actually was slowly blossomed and ripened in Siddhartha—and he discovered what the goal of his long search… — 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… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beautiful musical allegory… — 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
“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
“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
“Ask the river about it, my friend! Listen to it, laugh about it! Do you then really think that you have committed… — 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
“All children, as long as they still live in the mystery, are continuously occupied in their souls with the only thing that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Although I know very little of the Steppenwolf's life, I have all the same good reason to suppose that he was brought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content. — 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 path had led me at that time into a new life, which had now grown old and is dead” — 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
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — 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
“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
“The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way… — 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
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
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
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
“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
“... 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
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
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
“..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
“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
“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
