To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
HERMANN HESSEBecause the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to 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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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