Becoming Quote by Hermann Hesse

“He saw mankind going trough life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time. He saw…

— hermann hesse

He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most…

— Anonymous

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of…

— Ayn Rand

“Long accustomed to a life of self-indulgent solitude, he began to yearn for the beauty of giving himself to others. The nobility of the…

— Yasunari Kawabata

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that…

— Oscar Wilde

“He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering.... He opened his eyes a moment and they were…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“He divided the inhabitants of this world into two groups, into those who had loved and those who had not. It was a horrible…

— Thornton Wilder

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure,…

— Hermann Hesse

“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And so he had begun by vivisecting himself, as he had ended by vivisecting others. Human life—that appeared to him the one thing worth…

— Oscar Wilde

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London