Hermann Hesse Quotes About Fate

Quotes about: Fate

• My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fate, Wind, Sound

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

• Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fighting, Fate, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2005). “Siddhartha: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.103, Prestwick House Inc

• Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine. That this wound did not blossom yet, did not shine yet, at this hour, made him sad. Instead of the desired goal, which had drawn him here following the runaway son, there was now emptiness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Heart, Fighting

  "Siddhartha".

• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
  destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fate, Destiny, What Matters

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

• One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fate, Two, Aphorism

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

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