Hermann Hesse Quotes

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

Hermann Hesse

• Life
• Imagination
• Ecstasy

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• We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Building
  • Determination
  • Confused

• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • American
  • Impact

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Think
  • Imagination
  • Paint

• I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Me
  • Films
  • Chosen

• Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Common

• Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Win
  • Tears

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Politics
  • Start

• I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Characters

• Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Important
  • Powerful
  • Dreams

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Different
  • Best
  • Effort

• I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Week

• My mom and I are very close.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Mom
  • Very
  • Close

• I knew you wanted to tell me;In your voice there was something wrong.But if you would turn your face away from me,You cannot tell me you're so strong.Just let me ask of you one small thing.As we have shared so many tears,With fervor our dreams we planned a whole life longNow are scattered on the wind...

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Small

• Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

  

  Jean Rostand

• My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Long
  • Try

• Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

  

  Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Life
  • Peace

• We may not preach a crucified Savior without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Ecstasy