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Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
Love must not entreat,’ she added, ‘or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars (p. 38) (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another’s words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods ... (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
But it’s a poor fellow who can’t take his pleasure without asking other people’s permission. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
Man’s life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through night or day, cathedral or the caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
Obeying is like eating and drinking. There’s nothing like it if you’ve been without it for too long. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha (Hermann Hesse Quotes)
When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret! (Hermann Hesse Quotes)