“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You consider yourself odd at times, you accuse yourself of taking a road different from most people. You have to unlearn that.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He saw: this water ran and ran, incessantly it ran, and was nevertheless always there, was always at all times the same… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I was mad, as I thought at moments; perhaps I was not like other men? But I was able to do… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I had walked but a short time when I met a man with a tin number on his hat, and he asked… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Quoth Siddhartha: "What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For a long time, he pondered his transformation, listened to the bird, as it sang for joy. Had not this bird died… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The world... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment...” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...she seemed to know more of life than is known to the wisest of the wise. It might be the highest wisdom… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Deeply he felt, more deeply than ever before, in this hour, the indestructibility of every life, the eternity of every moment.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to… — 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
