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Would Be Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and…
- What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking…
- Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even…
- A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be…
- Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary…
- 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,…
- Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness…
- The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird…
- What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less…
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius