We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
HERMANN HESSEAnd all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
-
-
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
HERMANN HESSE -
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
HERMANN HESSE -
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
HERMANN HESSE -
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
HERMANN HESSE -
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
HERMANN HESSE -
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
HERMANN HESSE -
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
HERMANN HESSE -
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
HERMANN HESSE -
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
HERMANN HESSE -
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
HERMANN HESSE -
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSE -
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
HERMANN HESSE -
I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
HERMANN HESSE -
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
HERMANN HESSE -
Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSE