Hermann Hesse Quotes

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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

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Passion, Home, Creative

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.151, Macmillan

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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

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Positive, Being Yourself, Time

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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

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Love, Life, Strength

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I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

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Dream, Sweet, Stars

Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian: A Dual-Language Book”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

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Patience, Revenge, People

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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

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Inspirational, Men, Way

Hermann Hesse (2009). “Siddhartha”, p.8, Modern Library

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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.

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Life, Yoga, Reality

"Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse".

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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

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Love, Relationship, Communication

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We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

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War, Eye, Disrespect

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Every experience has its element of magic.

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Magic, Elements

Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

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Inspirational, Uplifting, Faith

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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

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God Love, Piety

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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

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Taken, Laughing, Steppenwolf

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

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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

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Long, Moments, Eternity

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

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Life, Trying, Difficult

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

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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

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Hurt, Love You, Suffering

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

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Love, Life, Anniversary

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

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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

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Long, Stories, Way

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

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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

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Inspirational, Children, Writing

Hermann Hesse, Sherab Chödzin (2002). “Siddhartha: A New Translation”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

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Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

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Two, People, Together

Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.

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Perfect, Grace, World

"Siddhartha".

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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

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Impossible, Achieve, Again And Again

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

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Truth, Faces, Millions

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I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

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Inspirational, Dream, Differences

"Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 183, 1919.

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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

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Flower, Heart, Trying

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Born: July 2, 1877
Died: August 9, 1962
Occupation: Poet
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