❝ Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. 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
❝ We fear death, we shudder at life’s instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. 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
❝ But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. And sometimes, when the black depths are silent, we can do even more. We can then be gods for moments, stretch out a commanding hand and create things which were not there before and which, when they are created, continue to live without us. Hermann Hesse
❝ The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. 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 isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.” Hermann Hesse
❝ “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