Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse Quotes

German - Novelist July 2, 1877 - August 9, 1962

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. - Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse

Strength, Holding On, Some

Solitude is independence. - Hermann Hesse

Solitude is independence. Hermann Hesse

Alone, Independence

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. Hermann Hesse

Inspirational, Always, Give

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. - Hermann Hesse

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. Hermann Hesse

Communication, Loud, Spoken

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. Hermann Hesse

Thoughts, Always, Very

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

Person, Disturb, Part

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world. Hermann Hesse

World, Egg, Fights

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. Hermann Hesse

Study, Means, Nevertheless

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Hermann Hesse

Home, Like, Intersect

Only the ideas that we really live have any value. Hermann Hesse

Ideas, Only, Any

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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. Hermann Hesse

Intelligence, Mind, Dividing

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. Hermann Hesse

Individual, Made, Each One

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Hermann Hesse

Love, Death, Transformation

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere. Hermann Hesse

Learning, Essence, We Cannot

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. Hermann Hesse

Eat, Nothing, Most

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. - Hermann Hesse

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. Hermann Hesse

Alone, Never, Single

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. Hermann Hesse

Relationship, See, Other

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. Hermann Hesse

Life, Why, Allow

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. Hermann Hesse

Happiness, Talent, How

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Hermann Hesse

Courage, Rest, Always

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Hermann Hesse

Enough, Eternity, Mere

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. Hermann Hesse

Meaning, Behind, Hidden

The truth is lived, not taught. Hermann Hesse

Truth, Truth Is, Taught

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

Point, Very, Every Man

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. Hermann Hesse

Leader, Think, Take

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse

Could, Books, Would

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