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Nothing Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Happiness is love, nothing else.
- Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I…
- You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time,…
- Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence
- Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that…
- Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
- 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…
- A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
- 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…
- If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
- Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
- You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well,…
- 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…
- Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.
- 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…
- I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the…
- Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and…
- 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,…
More Nothing Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong