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Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 5

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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

Depression, Suicide, Children

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.73, Om Books International

What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.

Pain, Drinking, Wine

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1457, Google Publishing

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Stars, Book, Teaching

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

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

Voice, Evil, Goal

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.102, Om Books International

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.

Time, Real, Evil

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

Night, Men, Light

"Gertrud". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1910.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

People, Found, Loses

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

Arrows, Soul, Bows

Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

Suffering, Dying, Life Is

"Klingsor's Last Summer".

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

Two, People, Together

Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Inspirational, Children, Writing

Hermann Hesse, Sherab Chödzin (2002). “Siddhartha: A New Translation”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Home, Tree, Looks

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

Life, Trying, Difficult

Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian”, p.8, Courier Corporation

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

Change, Reality, Long

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

Trust, Art, Magic

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

Beautiful, Children, Flower

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

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

Reality, Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.81, Om Books International

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.

Inspirational, Unique, Men

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

I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

Teaching, Blood

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

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

Inspirational, Wise, Teacher

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

Work, Destiny, Men

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

Greatness, Siddhartha, Speech

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1538, Google Publishing

Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.

Spiritual, Real, Men

"Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1922.

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Class, Optimism, Contentment

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

You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

Laughter, Pain, Opposites

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

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