Desire Quote by Hermann Hesse

He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention…

— Hermann Hesse

“He forced his mind clear of other thoughts and waited. Stillness, he had learned, did not come naturally. He practiced it. Sometimes, as he…

— Elizabeth Musser

“feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or time would…

— Jane Austen

He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and…

— Charles Dickens

he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought…

— Nicholas Sparks

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to…

— Charles Frazier

Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of…

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

“He gave us music that reached into the ear like a lover's tongue and changed the color of our feelings. He presented movement so…

— Katie Waitman

“He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating…

— Anne Tyler

Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had…

— Anonymous

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were…

— Franz Kafka

“But he played music so loudly he could not hear his pain. He stunted his growth beneath a bass that decorated his aura and…

— Karl Kristian Flores