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Hermann Hesse Quotes about Life

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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Love, Life, Strength

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Life, Yoga, Reality

"Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse".

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.

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.106, Om Books International

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Life, Fun, Weapons

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Love, Life, Anniversary

"Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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.

Life, Wisdom, Art

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.98, Om Books International

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Life, Believe, Endure

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.75, Macmillan

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

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

Life, Law, Tree

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

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

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Life, Order, Secret

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.33, Om Books International

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.

Life, Happiness, Smile

That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!

Life, Years, Long

"Peter Camenzind". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1904.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Life, Strength, Demand

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

Life, Giving, Way

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.

Life, Stars, Flower

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

Life, Mother, Dies

"Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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