All Hermann Hesse Quotes
- In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. Creation
- Solitude is independence. Alone
- Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. Cannot Love
- Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. All
- To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. Chaos
- The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as… Accept
- There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that… Believe
- What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable,… Constitutes
- He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that… All
- He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself. Given
- I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have… Always Found
- When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days,… Air
- When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find… Able
- Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely… Attempt
- I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? Accord
- Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not… Awake
- One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. Detour
- You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to… Afraid
- Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts. Always Ask
- You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value. Actually Live
- If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even… Achieve
- You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the… All
- I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching… Awareness
- For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the… All
- Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the… Alms