The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the… — 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
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which… — 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
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of… — 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
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost… — 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
Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I… — 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
