One never reaches home… But wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Hermann Hesse
Love must not entreat… 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
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. Hermann Hesse
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve. Hermann Hesse
Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. Hermann Hesse
Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy. They had become a chain and a burden. Hermann Hesse
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us. Hermann Hesse
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? Hermann Hesse
“Love must not entreat… 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
