❝ “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.” Uncategorized
❝ “One never reaches home… But wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.” 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.” 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
❝ “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
❝ “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.” Hermann Hesse
❝ “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.” Hermann Hesse
❝ “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.” Hermann Hesse