Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of… — 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
“I don't know whether I love Gina. I doubt it very much. I would not make any sacrifices for her. I do… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavour to love them, to be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too… — 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… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Se plamadise cu incetul, intre ei, alaturi de limbajul ratiunii, si un limbaj al sufletului si al semnelor, la fel cum intre… — 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
“Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow… — 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
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the… — 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
