Hermann Hesse Quotes

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

Hermann Hesse

• My Life
• Destiny
• Fate
• Existence

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• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Night
  • Worry
  • Wind

• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

  

  Halsey
  • Existence

• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • My Life

• I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Feeling

• A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Life
  • Women
  • My Life

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• 'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Blessed
  • My Life

• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mother

• Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Speech

• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Life
  • Morning
  • My Life

• As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Mistakes

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Business
  • Road
  • My Life

• In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Culture
  • Persuasion
  • Force Of Death

• A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Rule

• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • My Life
  • Destiny
  • Fate