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Years Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each…
- To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile -…
- Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain…
- When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk…
- 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…
- Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it…
- 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…
- 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…
- Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and…
- Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was…
- 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…
- 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.…
- I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story…
- That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little…
- I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were…
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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
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- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
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- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz