Quotes by Hermann Hesse

“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”

Topics: anymore, distasteful, history

“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.”

Topics: become, beloved, demands

“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.”

Topics: attained, cold, history

“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.”

Topics: also, anymore, every

“If what matters in a person’s existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one’s external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.”

Topics: accept, existence, history

“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.”

Topics: almost, blessed, considerable

“Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.”

Topics: commonly, everything, expressed

“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.”

Topics: beings, good, history

“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.”

Topics: also, finally, history

“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”

Topics: bourgeois, comfortable, history

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