It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.


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You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the...
HERMANN HESSE
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear a...
HERMANN HESSE
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope...
HERMANN HESSE
Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. ...
HERMANN HESSE
We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane an...
HERMANN HESSE
The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contain...
HERMANN HESSE
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him i...
HERMANN HESSE
You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to ge...
HERMANN HESSE
Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.
HERMANN HESSE
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so ve...
HERMANN HESSE
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are o...
HERMANN HESSE
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer s...
HERMANN HESSE
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to ...
HERMANN HESSE
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMANN HESSE
I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. Th...
HERMANN HESSE
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unr...
HERMANN HESSE
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within ...
HERMANN HESSE
Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no on...
HERMANN HESSE
One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, ...
HERMANN HESSE
In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.
HERMANN HESSE
Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you.
Now you stand odd and strangely shaped!
You were h...
HERMANN HESSE
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees hav...
HERMANN HESSE
Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum
nicht jede wächst zur Frucht
sie schimmern hell wie...
HERMANN HESSE
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: B...
HERMANN HESSE
When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud ...
HERMANN HESSE
No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found...
HERMANN HESSE
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air o...
HERMANN HESSE
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am...
HERMANN HESSE
O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew no...
HERMANN HESSE
When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easily
happen that the only thing his...
HERMANN HESSE
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of our...
HERMANN HESSE
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after the...
HERMANN HESSE
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we...
HERMANN HESSE
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist,...
HERMANN HESSE
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...
HERMANN HESSE
Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSE
He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he r...
HERMANN HESSE
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be fille...
HERMANN HESSE
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of o...
HERMANN HESSE
Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a c...
HERMANN HESSE
There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter...
MONICA HESSE
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my ...
HERMANN HESSE
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c...
HERMANN HESSE
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of op...
HERMANN HESSE
Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object
HERMANN HESSE
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a wo...
HERMANN HESSE
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
HERMANN HESSE
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It...
HERMANN HESSE
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...
HERMANN HESSE
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a wo...
HERMANN HESSE
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMANN HESSE
If you attempt to burn 20 copies and distribute them to the kids who come to your son's birthday par...
THOMAS HESSE
You can do with the CD you bought what you do with it if you're within the realm of personal use,
THOMAS HESSE
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMANN HESSE
There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, wi...
HERMANN HESSE
(...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l...
HERMANN HESSE
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh,...
HERMANN HESSE
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSE
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
HERMANN HESSE
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them ...
HERMANN HESSE
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work i...
HERMANN HESSE