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

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

Solitude is independence. - Hermann Hesse

Solitude is independence. Hermann Hesse

Alone, Independence

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, Part, Disturb

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

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

Home, Like, Intersect

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

Books, Would, Could

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

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

Bourgeois, Consuming

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Hermann Hesse

Accomplish, Prepared, Ideals

Top 10
Hermann Hesse
Quotes

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

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, Single, Never

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

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. Hermann Hesse

Wisdom, Communicate, Through

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

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

Eternity, Enough, Mere

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

Ideas, Only, Any

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

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

Single, Never, Still

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

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. Hermann Hesse

Love, Like, Perhaps

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

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. Hermann Hesse

Dealing, Sane, Method

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. Hermann Hesse

Say, Your, Could

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