Hermann Hesse Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Truth, Father

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

• It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Father, Childhood, Firsts

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

• A tree says:
  My strength is trust.
  I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me.
  I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else.
  I trust that God is in me.
  I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Father, Spring

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

• A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Father, Eye

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