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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
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.
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.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
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.
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.
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.
