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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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.
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.
Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
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...
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
