Sorrow Quotes by Hermann Hesse

“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.”

— Hermann Hesse

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

— Hermann Hesse

“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in…

— Hermann Hesse

“Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world…

— Hermann Hesse

I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to…

— Hermann Hesse

“Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow…

— Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No…

— Hermann Hesse

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all…

— Hermann Hesse

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in…

— Hermann Hesse

“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become.…

— 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

If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my…

— Hermann Hesse