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Perhaps he was handsome, perhaps I liked him, perhaps I also found him repulsive, I could not be sure of that either. — Hermann Hesse

The world ... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment ... — Hermann Hesse

Only when I found myself sitting in front of you did I realize that my wish was only half fulfilled and that my sole aim was to sit next to you. — Hermann Hesse

But each one is a gamble of Nature, a hopeful attempt at forming a human being. — Hermann Hesse

Obeying is like eating and drinking. There's nothing like it if you've been without it for too long. — Hermann Hesse

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long. — Hermann Hesse

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. — Hermann Hesse

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul, The Brahman is the arrow's target that one should incessantly hit. — Hermann Hesse

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. — Hermann Hesse

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. — Hermann Hesse

Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself! Nevertheless, — Hermann Hesse

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish. — Hermann Hesse

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it. — Hermann Hesse

The dream of death is only the dark smoke
Under which the fires of life are burning. — Hermann Hesse

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul ... — Hermann Hesse

I don't believe in our politics, our way of thinking, believing, amusing ourselves; I don't share a single one of the ideals of our age. — Hermann Hesse

For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha — Hermann Hesse

We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation. — Hermann Hesse

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. — Hermann Hesse

I meditated upon it and found myself to be a riddle — Hermann Hesse

Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God's voice can be heard — Hermann Hesse

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. — Hermann Hesse

The old buzzard told me his life's story. I only remember that it was interesting and unusual; I've forgotten all the details. — Hermann Hesse

Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love. — Hermann Hesse

It was one of the ferryman's greatest virtues that, like few people, he knew how to listen. — Hermann Hesse

He could have exchanged his name and address with any of his neighbours, and nothing would have been different. — Hermann Hesse

It almost rained Saturday.The clouds hung low over the farm.The air felt thick.It smelled like rain.
In town,the sidewalks got damp, that was all. — Karen Hesse

passacaglia by the old master Buxtehude. — Hermann Hesse

seriousness, young man, is an accident of time — Hermann Hesse

Both, the thoughts as well as the senses, were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them, — Hermann Hesse

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself. — Hermann Hesse

Perhaps, people of our kind can't love. The childlike people can; that's their secret. — Hermann Hesse

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward. — Hermann Hesse

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace. — Hermann Hesse

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live. — Hermann Hesse

While one is singing one does not think about whether of not the singing is useful. One simply sings. — Hermann Hesse

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. — Hermann Hesse

In the beginning was the myth. — Hermann Hesse

It is not my place to judge another person's life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse. — Hermann Hesse

To listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions. — Hermann Hesse

It's so good to know that inside us there's a self that knows everything! — Hermann Hesse

Let every reader do as his conscience bids him. — Hermann Hesse

There are many ways in which the god can make us lonely and lead us to ourselves. — Hermann Hesse

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. — Hermann Hesse

Everyone takes, everyone gives, such is life. — Hermann Hesse

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures? — Hermann Hesse

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back. — Hermann Hesse

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars. — Monica Hesse

The world was beautiful when one just looked at it without — Hermann Hesse

And they didn't like to pay with trust and love, but rather with money and goods. They betrayed each other and expected being betrayed themselves. — Hermann Hesse

It is not enough to read Hesse
and drink clam chowder,
we must have the answers. — Anne Sexton

As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy. — Hermann Hesse

I turn my back on him as he goes,
and settle myself in the parlor,
and touch Ma's piano.
My fingers leave sighs
in the dust. — Karen Hesse

How exhausting all this was. In fact, if only people knew how madly tiresome it is to be a criminal ... ! — Hermann Hesse

I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything. — Karen Hesse

My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole. — Monica Hesse

I live in my dreams - that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference. — Hermann Hesse

And the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. — Hermann Hesse

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. — Hermann Hesse

It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile. — Chris Hesse

I read Hesse's Steppenwolf thrice. The first time I was enchanted, the second time disappointed, the third time appalled. — Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Only the ideas that we really live have any value. — Hermann Hesse

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task. — Hermann Hesse

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking
a detour, an error. — Hermann Hesse

If a person were to concentrate all his will power on a certain end, then he would achieve it. That's all. — Hermann Hesse

My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did — Karen Hesse

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. — Herman Hesse

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. — Hermann Hesse

The purifications were nice, but they were just water, and didn't wash away sins; they didn't cure the mental thirst or allay his heart's anxiety. — Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. — Hermann Hesse

This is what makes them so dear and worthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can love them. — Hermann Hesse

We marked men were not at all worried about the shape the future would take. — Hermann Hesse

Everyone can perform magic; everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, to wait, and to fast." Kamala — Hermann Hesse

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment. — Hermann Hesse

All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave what she alone knew how to take. — Hermann Hesse

Friendship is identification and difference — Hermann Hesse

We might not belong to anyone else in this whole world. But us Faulstiches,we belong to each other. — Karen Hesse

. . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! — Hermann Hesse

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. — Hermann Hesse

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen. — Hermann Hesse

I can think. I can wait. I can fast. — Hermann Hesse

To him, art and craftmanship were usless unless they burned like the sun and had power of storms. — Hermann Hesse

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new — Hermann Hesse

Here it is Saturday. You wouldn't know how good it feels after a hard week."
"Oh, I can imagine," said Knulp with a smile. — Hermann Hesse

If I know what love is, it is because of you. — Hermann Hesse

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. — Hermann Hesse

He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes. — Hermann Hesse

Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up. — Hermann Hesse

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. — Hermann Hesse

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones. — Hermann Hesse

The purpose and the essential properties were not somewhere behind the things, they were in them, in everything. — Hermann Hesse

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. — Hermann Hesse

Love is stronger than violence. — Hermann Hesse

Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself. — Hermann Hesse

Then you know. You know what it's like to love someone like you love yourself and lose them. — Monica Hesse

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. — Hermann Hesse

I lived again through all the loves of my life - but under hapier stars. — Hermann Hesse

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. — Hermann Hesse

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of. — Hermann Hesse

You could observe people's folly, you could laugh at them or feel sorry for them, but you had to let them go their own way. — Hermann Hesse