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Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 10

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Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

Children, Justice, Understanding

Hermann Hesse (2013). “The Journey to the East: A Novel”, p.106, Macmillan

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.

Fire, Flames, Perfection

"The Glass Bead Game".

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

People, Secret Love, Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.57, Om Books International

The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.

Children, Perfect, Grace

Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

In the beginning was the myth.

Myth

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

Real, Character, Two

Hermann Hesse (1961). “Der Steppenwolf”, Henry Holt & Company

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

Solitude, Independence, Longing

"Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays".

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

Mother, Path, Steps

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Sacrifice, Reality, Feelings

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.

Strong, Mad, Normal

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

Holy, Persons

Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.67, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

Purpose, Reason, Narcissus

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

Men, Long, Important

Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

Thinking, Overthinking, Ideas

Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

Children, Fundamentals, Sage

Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

Brain, Thousand

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.

Cups, Filled

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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

Long, Moments, Eternity

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

Two, Doe, Saint

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.

Men, Way, Synchronicity

"Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse (p. 193), 1919.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

Teaching, Enlightenment, Hours

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Beautiful, Simple, World

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.37, Om Books International

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

Long, Stories, Way

Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

Men, Objectivity, Shining

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

Wisdom, Yoga, Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum (1998). “Siddhartha”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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