Hermann Hesse Quotes

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

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• If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Real
  • Free
  • Interesting

• I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Age
  • Industry
  • Ageing

• I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Style
  • Intimidating
  • Demanding

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Days
  • Around

• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Country
  • Year

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Mother
  • You
  • Woman

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

  

  Kajol
  • God
  • Hero
  • Mistakes

• I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Good
  • May
  • Proud

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Career

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself

• I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Day

• The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Life
  • Love
  • Feeling

• I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Funny
  • Mad

• It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

  

  Hermann Hesse
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