Herman Hesse > Quotes

“Everyone can perform magic; everyone can reach his goals”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“Nothing that isn't in us ever bothers us.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian

“Ah! Dio è morto!
E io devo vivere?

Gertrud”
― Herman Hesse

“They may be illusions”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“Writing is good”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“He always seems to be merely playing with business affairs; they never fully become a part of him and they never rule over him. He is never afraid of failure; he is never upset by a loss.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“The fact that I know nothing about myself”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“Yes, it was so; everything that had not been suffered and come to its resolution returned again. The same pain was suffered time and time again.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“The exalted one spoke with a voice that was soft yet firm; he taught the four main doctrines26 and taught the eightfold path.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“But is it not a mistake on your part
to think that you are not forcing him and not punishing him?
Are you not binding him with the bonds of your love? Do you
not shame him every day and do you not make things still
harder for him through your kindness and patience? Are you
not forcing him, this high-strung and spoiled boy, to live in a
hut with two old banana munchers, for whom rice is already a
delicacy, whose thoughts could not be his, whose hearts are
old and at peace and move at a different pace from his? Is all
that not force and a punishment?”
― Herman Hesse

“Truths): When Gotama teaches the crowd”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“He is drawn; he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“This is what makes them so dear to me and worthy of veneration: they are like me”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“I cannot tell my story without going a long way back. If it were possible I would go back much farther still to the very earliest years of my childhood and beyond them to my family origins.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian

“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
― Herman Hesse , Siddhartha An Indian Tail Annotated: Heritage Revival Edition

“Knowledge can be transferred”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“One goal loomed before Siddhartha”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“Had you remained there”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations

“Many majestic and unbelievable things were reported of him: he had done miracles”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) : 20+ wonderful illustrations and 50+ annotations