Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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A person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
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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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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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It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it.
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Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.
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The opposite of every truth is just as true.
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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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What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
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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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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
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One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet.
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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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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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That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
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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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You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.
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You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.
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I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.