Steppenwolf Quotes - Page 2

• His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

  Hermann Hesse

  Two, Doe, Saint

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

  Hermann Hesse

  Contentment

  Steppenwolf pt. 1 (1927)

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• Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Character, Two

  Hermann Hesse (1961). “Der Steppenwolf”, Henry Holt & Company

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• 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

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• Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Two, Suffering

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hands, Games, Laughing

  Steppenwolf pt. 6 (1927)

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• For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Class, Optimism, Contentment

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Way, Innocence

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• 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".

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• I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here.

  Andre Holland

  Play, Done, Moonlight

  Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. November 4, 2016.

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• After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.

  Tracy Letts

  Writing, August, Should Have

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• It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

  Roger Ebert

  Drama, School, Class

  Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.542, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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