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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
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...
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
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.
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.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
