“We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, but official duties left him no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“My soul breathed once more. My eyes were opened. There were moments when I felt with a glow that I had only… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For our goal was not only the East, or rather the East was not only a country and something geographical, but it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I had often toyed with pictures of the future, dreamed of rôles which might be assigned to me—as a poet, maybe, or… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“His face turned scornful for a moment when he considered that wise people serve fools almost everywhere.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When you listen to radio you are a witness of the everlasting war between idea and appearance, between time and eternity, between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Out of this moment, where the world melted away all around him, where he appeared as the sole star in the sky,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest” — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
“Deep was his sleep and free of dreams; it had been a long time since he had known such sleep. When he… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth. — 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
