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Longer Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that…
- When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable…
- I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn…
- 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…
- We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our…
- I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and…
- People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer…
- We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our…
- Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be…
- I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
- I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in…
- The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed…
- When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look…
More Longer Quotes
- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world… — Isaac Asimov
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard
- I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in… — Douglas Bader
- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels… — Amy Adams
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense… — Stanley Baldwin
- If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. — Alan Ball
- Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be… — J. G. Ballard