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Him Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- 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…
- It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for…
- If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- 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…
- No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a…
- Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered…
- ...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of…
- 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,…
- The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon…
- She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to…
- I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world…
- Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a…
- For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship,…
- Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise…
- This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to…
- He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming…
- He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self,…
- What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps…
- So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last…
- It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without…
- 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…
- . 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…
- Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden, forbidden for him.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden