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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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.
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.
