Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything… — 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
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back… — 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
