Hermann Hesse Quotes & Quotations

Hermann Hesse Quotes

» Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

» The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

» In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

» You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

» 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.

» 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.

» You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

» One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

» The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

» I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

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