The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chococlate in my mouth,the one as hateful… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at… — 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
