If I know what love is, it is because of you.
HERMANN HESSEWhen the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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