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Down Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk…
- 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…
- The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.
- 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…
- 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,…
- He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such…
- 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…
- And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such…
More Down Quotes
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell