Hermann Hesse Quotes about Suffering

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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

Hurt, Love You, Suffering

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Hermann Hesse

Disappointment, Suffering, Vex

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.100, Macmillan

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Hermann Hesse

Suffering, Investing, Enough

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

Hermann Hesse

Suffering, Dying, Life Is

"Klingsor's Last Summer".

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

Hermann Hesse

Two, Suffering, Culture

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.

Hermann Hesse

Suffering, Littles, Sake