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Once Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into…
- Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely…
- Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's…
- Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when…
- You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself…
- You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.…
- No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No…
- There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was…
- Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins