All Hermann Hesse Quotes
- For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And… Alone
- For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being… Blossom
- Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. Birth
- To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. Achieve
- Every experience has its element of magic. Element
- All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God. All
- For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the… Associated
- When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for… Childhood
- I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of… Abstainer
- Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish. Always Sounds
- A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes. Inspirational
- The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will. Die
- One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and… Better
- He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had… Advancing
- Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content. Content
- Love of God is not always the same as love of good. God
- So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity… All
- In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the… Acknowledged
- Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the… Among
- Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it… Age
- It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of… Blue
- It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would… Been
- If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. Eat
- Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. Beautiful
- Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it… Agreement