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 HESSEEverything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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