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, Strong, Think, Letting Go, Go

Solitude is independence. - Hermann Hesse

Solitude is independence. Hermann Hesse

Alone, Solitude, Independence

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. Hermann Hesse

Good, Time, Suffering, Evil, World, Real

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, Different, Little, Out

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, Soul, Body, Everyone, Never

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

Yourself, Hate, You, Person, Him, Us

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. Hermann Hesse

Smile, Happiness, Moment, Woman, Self

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it. Hermann Hesse

Path, Moment, Perfection, Grace, World

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, World, New, Beyond

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. Hermann Hesse

Law, Never, Possible, Single, Still

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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

Life, Love, Great, Death, Sweet, Accept

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Hermann Hesse

Life, Wisdom, Art, Moment, Soul, Unity

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

Home, Time, World, Looks, Paths, Never

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. Hermann Hesse

Happiness, Together, Magic, More, Away

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. Hermann Hesse

Morning, Sky, Blue, Joy, Window, Long

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

History, Words, Writing, Humanity, Books

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. Hermann Hesse

Life, Wisdom, Beautiful, Religion, Which

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. Hermann Hesse

Finding, Free, Goal, Seeking, Receptive

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

Creation, Spirit, Individual, Made, Each

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. Hermann Hesse

Spring, Thinking, Questions, Without

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, Good, Value, Believe, Bad

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

Bird, World, Born, Egg, Way, Will

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. Hermann Hesse

Happiness, Me, Harmony, Feeling, Nothing

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, Live, People, World, Reality, Why

The truth is lived, not taught. Hermann Hesse

Truth, Truth Is, Lived, Taught

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

Moment, Enough, Long, Eternity, Joke

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