Hermann Hesse Quotes

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

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• Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Hard
  • Weg

• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Long
  • Country
  • High

• As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Simple
  • Best
  • Journey

• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • You
  • Know
  • Bus

• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Care

• I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Trying
  • School
  • High

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Said

• I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

  

  Edmund White
  • Thought
  • Special
  • Mission

• I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Special

• I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Sex
  • Write
  • Read

• The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Purpose
  • Never
  • Noble

• I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Different
  • Way
  • Wish

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Different
  • United States
  • Russia

• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • More
  • Four
  • Thousand

• I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Men
  • Like
  • Hill

• I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • World
  • Music
  • Feeling

• I am very proud of the fact that 20 years on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is Murder'. “I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Proud
  • Result
  • Vegetarian

• I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Wish

• I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • Passion

• At the Third Wave Foundation, we were asking questions like, "How can we get more voters registered who support our issues?" or "How do we want to give away of money so that it has the greatest impact?" But, the poems were involved in questions of feeling whole, negotiating sexual trauma, and speaking to what has been lost forever. I've always been a person who feels most energized when I am both creating art and working toward social change, but I often have difficulty talking about the two in the same breath.

  

  Dawn Lundy Martin
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Support

• What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Value
  • Result
  • Seek