Hermann Hesse Quotes

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.

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

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.

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

Because 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.

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.

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.