Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Hermann Hesse quotes, Hermann Hesse sayings, and Hermann Hesse proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.Hermann Hesse
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.Hermann Hesse
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.Hermann Hesse
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.Hermann Hesse
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.Hermann Hesse
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One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.Hermann Hesse
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As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.Hermann Hesse
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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.Hermann Hesse
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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.Hermann Hesse
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.Hermann Hesse
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.Hermann Hesse
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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.Hermann Hesse
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.Hermann Hesse
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Words can not express the joy of new life.Hermann Hesse
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.Hermann Hesse
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.Hermann Hesse
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Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.Hermann Hesse
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Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.Hermann Hesse
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.Hermann Hesse
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Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.Hermann Hesse
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In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.Hermann Hesse
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.Hermann Hesse
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Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.Hermann Hesse
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.Hermann Hesse
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Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.Hermann Hesse
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All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.Hermann Hesse
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The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.Hermann Hesse
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.Hermann Hesse
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.Hermann Hesse
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Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.Hermann Hesse
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