Life Quote by Hesse, Hermann

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of…

— Tom Robbins

“The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And at several…

— Hermann Hesse

“He collected the stories of people like himself, mostly keeping silent and listening. He slowly discovered that the stories were similar, that there was…

— Paolo Giordano

“He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the…

— Charles Dickens

“Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid -…

— Kim White

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather