Hermann Hesse

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

- 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 woman's smile–that is happiness."

- Hermann Hesse

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

- Hermann Hesse

"“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”—Hermann Hesse"

- Hermann Hesse

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

- Hermann Hesse

"The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy."

- Hermann Hesse

"“The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On no morning of his life had he ever been in good spirits nor done any good before midday, nor ever had a happy idea, nor devised any pleasure for himself or others. By degrees during the afternoon he warmed and became alive, and only towards evening, on his good days, was he productive active and sometimes, aglow with joy.”"

- Hermann Hesse

"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning."

- Hermann Hesse

"Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others."

- Hermann Hesse

"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."

- Hermann Hesse

"In a world of your own, within you, there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."

- Hermann Hesse

"Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."

- Hermann Hesse

"Within you, there is stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."

- Hermann Hesse

"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time."

- Hermann Hesse

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

- Hermann Hesse

"Man muss das Unmögliche versuchen, um das Mögliche zu erreichen"

- Hermann Hesse

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

- Hermann Hesse

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

- 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."

- Hermann Hesse

"Words cannot express the joy of new life."

- Hermann Hesse

"When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward."

- Hermann Hesse

"We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps."

- Hermann Hesse

"Solitude is independence."

- Hermann Hesse

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

- Hermann Hesse

"One never reaches home. But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time."

- Hermann Hesse

"They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming."

- Hermann Hesse

"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."

- Hermann Hesse

"No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine."

- Hermann Hesse