Hermann Hesse Quotes
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All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's a place we belong. Love is what makes a home, not the contents inside the house or the number on the door. It's the people waiting for us across the threshold, the people who will take us in their arms after a ad day and kiss us good night and good morning everyday for the rest of our lives.
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The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
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Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.
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When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, but only of that infinitesimal part which has been able to make its way through the narrow channel of language and the equally narrow channel of the reader's understanding.
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One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.
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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
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One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.
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He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.
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How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.
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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love.
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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.
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At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
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The opposite of every truth is just as true.
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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.