“even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone.” — 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
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. — 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
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time.… — 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
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
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
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
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a… — 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 river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the… — 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
“But where we have given of our love and respect not from habit but of our own free will, where we have… — 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
You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now… — 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 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
“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
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
“But out of all secrets of the river, he today only saw one, this one touched his soul. He saw: this water… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You told me," he said, "that you love music because it isamoral. That's all right with me. But in that case you… — 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
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
“Time and the world, money and power belong to the small people and the shallow people. To the rest, to the real… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“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
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
“His face turned scornful for a moment when he considered that wise people serve fools almost everywhere.” — 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
“You will have to multiply many times your two-fold being and complicate your complexities still further. Instead of narrowing your world 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
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may… — 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
It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“... 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
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
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
“..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
“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
“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
