To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It was stupid and difficult, it was complicated and exhausting to love in such a way, but it was wonderful. Wonderful was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and… — 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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live... — 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
“I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. — 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
“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
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
“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
“This are things, and things can be loved. But I cannot love words.” — 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
For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the… — 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
“You don't force him, beat him, and give him orders because you know that 'soft' is stronger than 'hard,' that water is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I thought of nothing but her. I expected everything from her. I was ready to lay everything at her feet. I was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved… — 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
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
