Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every… — 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
All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough!… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of… — 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
