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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than violence.” — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“...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
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
