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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; he had not been with it. Now he was with it, he was part of it. Light and shadow ran through his eyes, stars and moon ran through his heart.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.
