--- title: "12 Long time Quotes By Hermann Hesse" description: "12 Long time quotes by Hermann Hesse. Plus more from Hermann Hesse and more Long time sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/057/hermann-hesse-130_eye_i-have-known-it-for-a-long-time-but-i-ha_519765.jpg" --- > [I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/i-have-known-it-for-a-long-time-but-i-have-only-just-experienced-it/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/057/hermann-hesse-130_eye_i-have-known-it-for-a-long-time-but-i-ha_519765.jpg) > [It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-is-good-to-taste-for-yourself-everything-you-need-to-know-that/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c4/hermann-hesse-130_children_it-is-good-to-taste-for-yourself-everyth_1366404.jpg) > [“Deep was his sleep and free of dreams; it had been a long time since he had known such sleep. When he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/deep-was-his-sleep-and-free-of-dreams-it-had-been-a-long-time-since/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/hermann-hesse-130_deep-sleep_deep-was-his-sleep-and-free-of-dreams-it_2776064.png) > [“Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/good-stories-are-like-those-noble-wild-animals-that-make-their-home/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/hermann-hesse-130_caves_good-stories-are-like-those-noble-wild-a_2023835.png) > [If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/if-man-has-nothing-to-eat-fasting-is-the-most-intelligent-thing-he/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/hermann-hesse-130_can-do_if-man-has-nothing-to-eat-fasting-is-the_719647.jpg) > [“It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-is-good-he-thought-to-get-a-taste-of-everything-for-oneself-which/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/004/hermann-hesse-130_children_it-is-good-he-thought-to-get-a-taste-of_1958125.jpg) > [It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-is-good-he-thought-to-taste-for-yourself-everything-you-need-to/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65a/hermann-hesse-130_children_it-is-good-he-thought-to-taste-for-yours_2062162.png) > [“In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/in-the-shade-of-the-house-in-the-sunshine-of-the-riverbank-near-the-2/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/010/hermann-hesse-130_black-eyes_in-the-shade-of-the-house-in-the-sunshin_2264939.png) > [“In the mango grove, shade poured into his black eyes, when playing as a boy, when his mother sang, when the sacred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/in-the-mango-grove-shade-poured-into-his-black-eyes-when-playing-as-a/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/hermann-hesse-130_black-eyes_in-the-mango-grove-shade-poured-into-his_1272675.png) > [“For a long time, he pondered his transformation, listened to the bird, as it sang for joy. Had not this bird died…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/for-a-long-time-he-pondered-his-transformation-listened-to-the-bird/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/263/hermann-hesse-130_change_for-a-long-time-he-pondered-his-transfor_981863.jpg) > [“In any case I fully endorse the singer's attitude towards the booklet that he will write and the child he wishes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/in-any-case-i-fully-endorse-the-singer-s-attitude-towards-the-booklet/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/hermann-hesse-130_books_in-any-case-i-fully-endorse-the-singer-s_2757500.png) > [“You have a picture of life within you, a faith, a challenge, and you were ready for deeds and sufferings and sacrifices,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/you-have-a-picture-of-life-within-you-a-faith-a-challenge-and-you/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/hermann-hesse-130_creative-work_you-have-a-picture-of-life-within-you-a_658309.jpg) ## Other authors on Long time ## More by Hermann Hesse > [Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/only-within-yourself-exists-the-other-reality-for-which-you-long-i/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/therefore-i-see-whatever-exists-as-good-death-is-to-me-like-life-sin/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/a-home-isn-t-just-a-roof-over-our-heads-a-home-is-a-place-where-we/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/fortunately-like-most-children-i-had-learned-what-is-most-valuable/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you that a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/the-mistaken-and-unhappy-notion-that-a-man-is-an-enduring-unity-is/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-would-be-better-for-our-country-and-the-world-in-general-if-at/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/the-bird-fights-its-way-out-of-the-egg-the-egg-is-the-world-who-would/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/everything-becomes-a-little-different-as-soon-as-it-is-spoken-out-loud/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-may-be-important-to-great-thinkers-to-examine-the-world-to-explain/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/it-is-useless-for-you-to-build-walls-and-dormitories-and-chapels-and/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/when-the-world-is-at-peace-when-all-things-are-tranquil-and-all-men/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/a-mere-nothing-suffices-and-the-lightning-strikes/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/and-if-time-is-not-real-then-the-dividing-line-that-seems-to-lie/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/beautiful-was-this-world-looking-at-it-thus-without-searching-thus/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) > [Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/were-not-the-gods-forms-created-like-me-and-you-mortal-transient/) [Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/hermann-hesse/#itemlist", "name": "12 Long time Quotes By Hermann Hesse", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. 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For a long time, Siddhartha had been partaking in the discussions of the wise men, practising debate with Govinda, practising with Govinda the art of reflection, the service of meditation. He already knew how to speak the Om silently, the word of words, to speak it silently into himself while inhaling, to speak it silently out of himself while exhaling, with all the concentration of his soul, the forehead surrounded by the glow of the clear-thinking spirit. 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For a long time, Siddhartha had been partaking in the discussions of the wise men, practising debate with Govinda, practising with Govinda the art of reflection, the service of meditation. He already knew how to speak the Om silently, the word of words, to speak it silently into himself while inhaling, to speak it silently out of himself while exhaling, with all the concentration of his soul, the forehead surrounded by the glow of the clear-thinking spirit. He already knew to feel Atman in the depths of his being, indestructible, one with the universe.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hermann Hesse" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/in-the-mango-grove-shade-poured-into-his-black-eyes-when-playing-as-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/hermann-hesse-130_black-eyes_in-the-mango-grove-shade-poured-into-his_1272675.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/hermann-hesse-130_black-eyes_in-the-mango-grove-shade-poured-into-his_1272675.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/hermann-hesse-130_black-eyes_in-the-mango-grove-shade-poured-into-his_1272675.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the mango grove, shade poured into his black eyes, when playing as a boy, when his mother sang, when the…” — Hermann Hesse", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For a long time, he pondered his transformation, listened to the bird, as it sang for joy. Had not this bird died in him, had he not felt its death? No, something else from within him had died, something which already for a long time had yearned to die. Was it not this what he used to intend to kill in his ardent years as a penitent? Was this not his self, his small, frightened, and proud self, he had wrestled with for so many years, which had defeated him again and again, which was back again after every killing, prohibited joy, felt fear? Was it not this, which today had finally come to its death, here in the forest, by this lovely river? Was it not due to this death, that he was now like a child, so full of trust, so without fear, so full of joy?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hermann Hesse" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/for-a-long-time-he-pondered-his-transformation-listened-to-the-bird/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/263/hermann-hesse-130_change_for-a-long-time-he-pondered-his-transfor_981863.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/263/hermann-hesse-130_change_for-a-long-time-he-pondered-his-transfor_981863.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/263/hermann-hesse-130_change_for-a-long-time-he-pondered-his-transfor_981863.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For a long time, he pondered his transformation, listened to the bird, as it sang for joy. Had not this bird…” — Hermann Hesse", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In any case I fully endorse the singer's attitude towards the booklet that he will write and the child he wishes to educate, for not only am I familiar with the passion for education but the desire to write a small book has for a long time also not been far from my thoughts, and now that I am free of my office this desire has assumed the proportions of a precious and alluring promise—to write a book in all good-humor and at my leisure, a pamphlet, an insignificant booklet for my friends and fellow thinkers.' 'And upon what subject, may I ask?' put in Designori with curiosity. 'Oh the subject would not matter so much. It would merely be an opportunity for me to weave my thoughts around some theme and to enjoy the good fortune of having a great deal of free time. The chief thing in my case would be the tone—a tone not of scholarship but a decorous mean between respect and intimacy, between gravity and playfulness, a friendly communication and utterance of sundry things that I believe I have experienced and learned… In the immediate future I cannot anticipate the joys and problems of writing my little book, for I have to prepare myself the luxury of blossoming into authorship, as I see it, with a comfortable but careful presentation of things, not for my solitary pleasure but always bearing in mind a few good friends and readers.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hermann Hesse" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/in-any-case-i-fully-endorse-the-singer-s-attitude-towards-the-booklet/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/hermann-hesse-130_books_in-any-case-i-fully-endorse-the-singer-s_2757500.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/hermann-hesse-130_books_in-any-case-i-fully-endorse-the-singer-s_2757500.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/hermann-hesse-130_books_in-any-case-i-fully-endorse-the-singer-s_2757500.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In any case I fully endorse the singer's attitude towards the booklet that he will write and the child he…” — Hermann Hesse", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“You have a picture of life within you, a faith, a challenge, and you were ready for deeds and sufferings and sacrifices, and then you became aware by degrees that the world asked no deeds and no sacrifices of you whatever, and that life is no poem of heroism with heroic parts to play and so on, but a comfortable room where people are quite content with eating and drinking, coffee and knitting, cards and wireless. And whoever wants more and has got it in him--the heroic and the beautiful, and the reverence for the great poets or for the saints--is a fool and a Don Quixote. Good. And it has been just the same for me, my friend. I was a gifted girl. I was meant to live up to a high standard, to expect much of myself and do great things. I could have played a great part. I could have been the wife of a king, the beloved of a revolutionary, the sister of a genius, the mother of a martyr. And life has allowed me just this, to be a courtesan of fairly good taste, and even that has been hard enough. That is how things have gone with me. For a while I was inconsolable and for a long time I put the blame on myself. Life, thought I, must in the end be in the right, and if life scorned my beautiful dreams, so I argued, it was my dreams that were stupid and wrong headed. But that did not help me at all. And as I had good eyes and ears and was a little inquisitive too, I took a good look at this so-called life and at my neighbors and acquaintances, fifty or so of them and their destinies, and then I saw you. And I knew that my dreams had been right a thousand times over, just as yours had been. It was life and reality that were wrong. It was as little right that a woman like me should have no other choice than to grow old in poverty and in a senseless way at a typewriter in the pay of a money-maker, or to marry such a man for his money's sake, or to become some kind of drudge, as for a man like you to be forced in his loneliness and despair to have recourse to a razor. Perhaps the trouble with me was more material and moral and with you more spiritual--but it was the same road. Do you think I can't understand your horror of the fox trot, your dislike of bars and dancing floors, your loathing of jazz and the rest of it? I understand it only too well, and your dislike of politics as well, your despondence over the chatter and irresponsible antics of the parties and the press, your despair over the war, the one that has been and the one that is to be, over all that people nowadays think, read and build, over the music they play, the celebrations they hold, the education they carry on. You are right, Steppenwolf, right a thousand times over, and yet you must go to the wall. You are much too exacting and hungry for this simple, easygoing and easily contented world of today. You have a dimension too many. Whoever wants to live and enjoy his life today must not be like you and me. Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours--”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hermann Hesse" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/you-have-a-picture-of-life-within-you-a-faith-a-challenge-and-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/hermann-hesse-130_creative-work_you-have-a-picture-of-life-within-you-a_658309.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/hermann-hesse-130_creative-work_you-have-a-picture-of-life-within-you-a_658309.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/hermann-hesse-130_creative-work_you-have-a-picture-of-life-within-you-a_658309.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You have a picture of life within you, a faith, a challenge, and you were ready for deeds and sufferings and…” — Hermann Hesse", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/hermann-hesse/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/hermann-hesse/", "name": "Long time Quotes by Hermann Hesse", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/hermann-hesse/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/057/hermann-hesse-130_eye_i-have-known-it-for-a-long-time-but-i-ha_519765.jpg" }, "description": "12 Long time quotes by Hermann Hesse. 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