Hermann Hesse Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.106, Om Books International

• Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Law, Tree

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

• Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.98, Om Books International

• There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Yoga, Reality

  "Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, 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

  Life, Happiness, Smile

• If I know what love is, it is because of you.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Anniversary

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

• Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Believe, Endure

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.75, Macmillan

• Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

• It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Hate, Hippie

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.110, Om Books International

• How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Stars, Flower

• That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Years, Long

  "Peter Camenzind". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1904.

• Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Mother, Dies

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

• That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Giving, Way

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

• Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Strength, Demand

• I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Order, Secret

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.33, Om Books International

• All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Trying, Difficult

  Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian”, p.8, Courier Corporation

• The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Fun, Weapons

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