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Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 7

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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

God Love, Piety

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

Goal, Healthy, Persons

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Beneath the Wheel: A Novel”, p.141, Macmillan

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

Heart, Wind, Tree

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

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

Hate, Persons

Hermann Hesse (2000). “Demian”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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

Inspirational, Inspiring, Mean

Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.

Doubt, Should, Asks

"Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.

Two, Suffering, Culture

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Men, Saint, Samsara

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

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Coward, Steppenwolf, Willing

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.216, Macmillan

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

Inspirational, Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.18, Om Books International

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

Fighting, Names, Eggs

"Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 166, 1919.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Hate, Deserving It, People

Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

Men, Justice, Sound

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

Inspirational, Sex, Pleasure Love

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.

Sympathy, Death, Sweet

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography”, p.218, Macmillan

Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace

Light, Two, Perfection

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Self, Difficult, Accord

"Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1919.

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

Passion, Heart, Waiting

Words can not express the joy of new life.

Baby, Joy, New Life

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

Dance, Taken, Dancing

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

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

Time, Home, House

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

Voice, Rivers, Water

There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

Wall, Pain, Heart

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hate, Hatred, Siddhartha

Demian ch. 6 (1919)

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

Life, Hate, Hippie

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.110, Om Books International

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