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
"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He who is capable of really reading a writer will have his every question answered by the works themselves. For example, Kafka… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In any case I fully endorse the singer's attitude towards the booklet that he will write and the child he wishes to… — 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
