Hermann Hesse Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, Mother, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

• To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mother, Men, Abortion

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

• 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.

• He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable day for seeding, lovers loving, mothers nursing their children—and all of this was not worthy of one look from his eye, it all lied, it all stank, it all stank of lies, it all pretended to be meaningful and joyful and beautiful, and it all was just concealed putrefaction. The world tasted bitter. Life was torture

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Mother

• Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mother, Path, Steps

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

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