Hermann Hesse Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

  Hermann Hesse

  Depression, Suicide, Children

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.73, Om Books International

• And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Evil, Goal

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.102, Om Books International

• I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope
  and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Sorrow, Aliens

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 4, 1910.

• Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Suffering, Sorrow, Ends

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

• Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Heart, Self

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

• If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Memories, Childhood

• Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, People, Sorrow

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 32, 1910.

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