Time Quotes by Hermann Hesse

“seriousness, young man, is an accident of time”

— Hermann Hesse

“But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest”

— hermann hesse

“my path had led me at that time into a new life, which had now grown old and is dead”

— Hermann Hesse

“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”

— Hermann Hesse

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

— Hermann Hesse

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists

— Hermann Hesse

“When you listen to radio you are a witness of the everlasting war between idea and appearance, between time and eternity, between…

— Hermann Hesse

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

“You consider yourself odd at times, you accuse yourself of taking a road different from most people. You have to unlearn that.”

— Hermann Hesse

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

— Hermann Hesse

“Deeply he felt, more deeply than ever before, in this hour, the indestructibility of every life, the eternity of every moment.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Deep was his sleep and free of dreams; it had been a long time since he had known such sleep. When he…

— Hermann Hesse

“The world... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment...”

— Hermann Hesse

“He saw: this water ran and ran, incessantly it ran, and was nevertheless always there, was always at all times the same…

— Hermann Hesse

“Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything…

— Hermann Hesse

“...she seemed to know more of life than is known to the wisest of the wise. It might be the highest wisdom…

— Hermann Hesse

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example…

— Hermann Hesse

“My soul breathed once more. My eyes were opened. There were moments when I felt with a glow that I had only…

— Hermann Hesse

It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good…

— Hermann Hesse

“then all these people were his brothers and sisters. Each one of them carried the memory of a beloved mother and a…

— Hermann Hesse

“Troubled, yet also with laughter, he recalled that time. He remembered that at that time he had boasted of three things to…

— Hermann Hesse

And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every…

— Hermann Hesse

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

“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of…

— Hermann Hesse

“It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Out of this moment, where the world melted away all around him, where he appeared as the sole star in the sky,…

— Hermann Hesse

“The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And…

— Hermann Hesse

“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

“But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of…

— 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

“He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of…

— Hermann Hesse

“The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our…

— Hermann Hesse

“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

“Struggling, despairing, Klein fought with his demon. All the new understanding and sense of redemption this fateful time had yielded had surged,…

— Hermann Hesse

“Perhaps I was mad, as I thought at moments; perhaps I was not like other men? But I was able to do…

— Hermann Hesse

“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit…

— Hermann Hesse

“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”

— Hermann Hesse

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in…

— Hermann Hesse

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is…

— Hermann Hesse

What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that…

— Hermann Hesse