Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“no matter how close two human beings may be, there is always a gulf between them which only love can bridge, and… — 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
Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha” — 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… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And they didn't like to pay with trust and love, but rather with money and goods. They betrayed each other and expected… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is… — 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… — 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
“Sensuality isn't worth a hair more than spirituality, and it's the same the other way around. It's all one, everything is equally… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter, how eagerly I imbibed their moods of loneliness… — 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
“He envied them for the one thing that was missing from him and that they had, the importance they were able to… — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. — 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
“soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than violence.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“This are things, and things can be loved. But I cannot love words.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it. — 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
And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I… — 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
“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
“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
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
