Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
HERMANN HESSETo die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The river is everywhere.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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