Hermann Hesse Quotes

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

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• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Month

• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kind
  • Living
  • Most

• President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Experience
  • America
  • Age

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Getting Older

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Age

• Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

  

  B. B. King
  • You
  • Play
  • Blue

• There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • High
  • Society
  • Man

• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Looking

• Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • World
  • Alone
  • Rest

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Ignorance
  • Case
  • Bliss

• In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Business
  • Competition

• I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Dance
  • inspirational
  • Photograhy

• The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • World
  • Country
  • Travel

• The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • World
  • Die
  • Will