Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live... — 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
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
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
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. — 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“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
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
“[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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die. — 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
“This are things, and things can be loved. But I cannot love words.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than violence.” — 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
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
“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
“... 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“... 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
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
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
“..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
“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
“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
![“[H]e never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that…” quote by Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e01/hermann-hesse-130_egoism_h-e-never-ceased-in-his-heroic-and-earne_2106709.jpg)
