Hermann Hesse Sayings and Quotes

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.'

Sensuality isn't worth a hair more than spirituality, and it's the same the other way around. It's all one, everything is equally good. Whether you embrace a woman or make a poem, it's the same. So long as the main thing is there, the love, the burning, the emotion, it doesn't matter whether you are a monk on Mount Athos or a man about town in Paris. Hermann Hesse
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self. Hermann Hesse
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. Hermann Hesse
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. Hermann Hesse
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. Hermann Hesse
In all beginnings dwells a magic force / For guarding us and helping us to live / Serenely let us move to distant places / And let no sentiments of home detain us. Hermann Hesse
In all beginnings dwells a magic force / For guarding us and helping us to live / Serenely let us move to distant places / And let no sentiments of home detain us. Hermann Hesse
One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time. Hermann Hesse
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
I shall always remember how the peacocks’ tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks… Hermann Hesse
If I know what love is, it is because of you. Hermann Hesse
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. Hermann Hesse
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
If I know what love is, it is because of you. Hermann Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. Hermann Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse
Contraries (are) poles of a unity. Hermann Hesse
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement. Hermann Hesse
Words can not express the joy of new life. Hermann Hesse
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." Hermann Hesse
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Hermann Hesse