Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 2

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• All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Angel, Ice

  Hermann Hesse (2009). “The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse”, p.182, Bantam

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• You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Way, Easy

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

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• Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, Loneliness, Destiny

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• A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Tree, Looks

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• I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Disappointment, Suffering, Vex

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.100, Macmillan

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• A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's a place we belong. Love is what makes a home, not the contents inside the house or the number on the door. It's the people waiting for us across the threshold, the people who will take us in their arms after a ad day and kiss us good night and good morning everyday for the rest of our lives.

  Hermann Hesse

  Good Night, Morning, Home

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• Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, Men, Capable

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• Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

  Hermann Hesse

  Strength, Strong, Demand

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• The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Ideas, Taught

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• The truth is lived, not taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Truth, Literature, Taught

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Dream, Differences

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

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• Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

  Hermann Hesse

  Responsibility, Thinking, Leader

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• God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Peace, Order, Despair

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• madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

  Hermann Hesse

  Madness, Steppenwolf, Higher

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

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• You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Harmony, Ifs

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

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Heart, Trying

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• I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Sweet, Stars

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 9, 1919.

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• When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

  Hermann Hesse

  Suffering, Investing, Enough

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• Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
  The final step you must take alone.
  No wisdom is better than this when known:
  That every hard thing is done alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Finals, Done, Steps

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• Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Hands, Doubt

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• Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Believe, Endure

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.75, Macmillan

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• This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Song

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• Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, Long

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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• Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.98, Om Books International

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