All Hermann Hesse Quotes
- I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity… Began
- Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to… Death
- It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood,… Childhood
- Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps… Awareness
- The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. Man
- Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. All
- There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for… Absolute
- Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready… Attic
- Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. Begins
- That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little… Alive
- Did all this make sense? All
- So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves… Death
- In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they… Any
- Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able… Able
- I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek… Across
- He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with… All
- . Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound… Been
- Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was… Astounded
- He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it… Continually
- You love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love… Art
- I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were… All
- The opposite of every truth is just as true. Every Truth
- a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. Entirely
- Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments… Able
- He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves. Found