Hermann Hesse Quotes About Independence

Quotes about: Independence

• Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Years, Space

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

• How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

  Hermann Hesse

  Solitude, Independence, Longing

  "Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays".

• Solitude is independence.

  Hermann Hesse

  Being Alone, Creativity, Solitude

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

• No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No time. Does it need time to be religious?" "Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odéon Bar and all that.

  Hermann Hesse

  Religious, Sorry, Independence

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