Hermann Hesse Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Stars, Winning

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

• Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Mind, Age

• Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Two, Suffering

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

• Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Character, Two

  Hermann Hesse (1961). “Der Steppenwolf”, Henry Holt & Company

• I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Men, Class

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

• Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

  Hermann Hesse

  Years, Age, Encounters

• As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Heart, Light

  Hermann Hesse, “Stages”

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