All Hermann Hesse Quotes
- Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing… Ability
- The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river. All
- I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back. Cannot Tell
- Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. Better
- All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame. All
- You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you,… Apprehension
- The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood. Art
- Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. Admire
- Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes… Age
- Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone. Concluded
- The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation. Annihilation
- All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul… All
- When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists Collide
- In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks , and Germans… Beginning
- Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with… Affection
- Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every… Assume
- One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the… Aphorism
- Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil. Abraxas
- I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life. Completely
- Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself Each
- All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into… Able
- If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an… Bliss
- This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being… Changes
- Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. Finding
- Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment… Art