To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live... — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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
“Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Scopul nostru nu este de a ne contopi unul intr-altul, ci a ne recunoaste reciproc si a invata sa vedem si sa… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbour is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Young woman, fresh face, I don't want to know your name. I don't want to cherish and fatten my love for you.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if weanswer it in the affirmative, ifwe accept it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And here now is a bit of doctrine that will make you laugh: Love, O Govinda, appears to me more important than… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With her, too, I danced more easily now, in a freer and more sprightly fashion, even though not so buoyantly and more… — 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
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
“His face was still smarter and more spiritual than others, but it rarely laughed, and assumed, one after another, those features which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“[H]e never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But where we have given of our love and respect not from habit but of our own free will, where we have… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Before all else I learned that these playthings were not mere idle trifles invented by manufacturers and dealers for the purposes of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Let the things be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Suddenly he thought he saw a trait of soul-less habit in her dear coarse face, something mechanical and unmysterious in her friendly… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“-Yo te gusto- continuó ella-, por el motivo que ya te he dicho; he roto tu soledad, te he recogido precisamente ante… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You don't force him, don't beat him, don't give him orders, because you know that 'soft' is stronger than 'hard', Water stronger… — 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