Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 8

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• Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, May, Evening

  Hermann Hesse (2009). “The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse”, p.65, Bantam

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• All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Soul, Expansion

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.

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  Clever, Learning, Reality

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• I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Self, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.30, Om Books International

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• The art of love-giving and taking become one.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Art, Giving

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• There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wall, Pain, Heart

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• What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Hatred, Siddhartha

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

  Hermann Hesse

  Happiness, Destiny, Opposites

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• It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

  Hermann Hesse

  Motivational, Respect, Honor

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

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• Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

  Hermann Hesse

  Perception

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• For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.

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  Roots, Giving, Tree

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• Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

  Hermann Hesse

  Gratitude, Children, Believe

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• The tree does not die, it waits.

  Hermann Hesse

  Tree, Waiting, Doe

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse (p. 149), 1919.

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• Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Long, Soul

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• But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

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  Growth, Mindfulness, Trials

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.493, Macmillan

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• All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lying, Psychology, Interpretation

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

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• Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.

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  Breakup, Children, Passion

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 217, 1910.

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• Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Path

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

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• Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

  Hermann Hesse

  Opposites, Mind, Literature

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

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  Life, Order, Secret

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

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• I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

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  Happiness, Hope Death, Fulfilled

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

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  Health, Intelligent, Men

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

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• Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

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  Love, Feelings, Admiration

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.52, Om Books International

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• Love is stronger than violence.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Love Is, Stronger

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• 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.

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