People Quotes by Hermann Hesse

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

— Hermann Hesse

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

— Hermann Hesse

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

— Hermann Hesse

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

— Hermann Hesse

“These people are rare who knows how to listen.”

— Hermann Hesse

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if…

— Hermann Hesse

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the…

— Hermann Hesse

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity…

— Hermann Hesse

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to…

— Hermann Hesse

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of…

— Hermann Hesse

In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as…

— Hermann Hesse

You love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could…

— Hermann Hesse

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion…

— Hermann Hesse

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they…

— Hermann Hesse

Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the…

— Hermann Hesse

...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness,…

— Hermann Hesse

Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying…

— Hermann Hesse

Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often…

— Hermann Hesse

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with…

— Hermann Hesse

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such…

— Hermann Hesse

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no…

— Hermann Hesse

She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent…

— Hermann Hesse

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

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to…

— Hermann Hesse

There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but…

— Hermann Hesse

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They…

— Hermann Hesse

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister…

— Hermann Hesse

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of…

— Hermann Hesse

Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few…

— Hermann Hesse

You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you.…

— Hermann Hesse

People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind…

— Hermann Hesse