black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Hermann Hesse

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSE

Deep Face Truth
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

Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
HERMANN HESSE

Admire Happiness Love
Every experience has its element of magic.
HERMANN HESSE

Element Experience Magic
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
HERMANN HESSE

Beautiful Clever Opinion
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
HERMANN HESSE

Ourselves Philosophy
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
HERMANN HESSE

Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
HERMANN HESSE

Death Live Willing
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
HERMANN HESSE

Communication Love Relationship
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSE

Deal Sanity
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSE

Life Reality
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

Difference Dream Inspirational People
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSE

Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
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.
HERMANN HESSE

Book Stars Teaching
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSE

Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
HERMANN HESSE

Force Love Strong

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Hermann Hesse Quotes