Hermann Hesse Quotes

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Hermann Hesse

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• Space
• Independence
• Revolve
• Solidude

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Credit

• I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Job
  • Living

• I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Fun

• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Done
  • Everything
  • Ever

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wisdom

• What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Weird
  • Fly

• Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Sleep
  • Feel
  • Look

• You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Story
  • Example
  • Nest

• I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Done
  • Star
  • Couple

• In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Product
  • Quantity

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Girl
  • Catholic
  • Down

• Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Quality
  • Democracy
  • Achievement

• It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Faces

• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Wish
  • Bird
  • Beast

• I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Remember

• Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.

  

  Leelee Sobieski
  • People
  • Job
  • Kiss

• Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

  

  Albert Collins
  • Singing
  • Blues
  • Leaves

• The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Looks
  • Look
  • Distance

• Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Wish
  • Space
  • Independence