Hermann Hesse Quotes

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Hermann Hesse

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• I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Like
  • Hurts
  • Botox

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Me
  • Talk
  • Conspiracy

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Long
  • New

• If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Explore

• The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Fun
  • Violence
  • Things

• Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Friends
  • Lost
  • Pain

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • World
  • You
  • Vogue

• The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • May
  • American
  • History

• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Free
  • Guilty
  • Fierce

• Fandom is amazing.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Amazing

• If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Eye

• As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Driving
  • Common
  • Questions

• I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Love
  • Rich

• To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.

  

  Ashley Monroe
  • Music
  • Different
  • Important

• In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • People
  • Life
  • Game

• Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.

  

  Chris Crawford
  • Game
  • Trust
  • Betrayal

• I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?” “I started living with you guys.” “Oh, right.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Living
  • Kid
  • Guys

• I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Death
  • I Believe
  • Determination