Secret Quotes by Hermann Hesse

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Hermann Hesse

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

— Hermann Hesse

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,…

— 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

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams…

— Hermann Hesse

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost…

— 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

A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every…

— Hermann Hesse

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every…

— Hermann Hesse

Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was.…

— Hermann Hesse

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere…

— Hermann Hesse

If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where…

— Hermann Hesse

With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along…

— Hermann Hesse

But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime…

— Hermann Hesse