Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good… — 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
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should… — 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
