All Hermann Hesse Quotes
- We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. Buddhism
- They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink… All
- One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen. Beg
- Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will… Circles
- You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live. Coward
- The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given… Been
- There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my… Accepted
- ...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… Appears
- Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose,… All
- His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between… Body
- My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly… Breath
- A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a… Absurdity
- But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. Asking
- How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible… Absurd
- Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when… All
- Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. Death
- The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon… Become Friends
- She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to… Age
- We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our… Artist
- A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad… Cathedral
- The cup was emptied and would never be filled again. Cup
- How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one… Aim
- I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world… Astray
- How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. Foolish
- To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and… Abortion