Herman Hesse > Quotes

“A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life.”
― Herman Hesse

“E ti dico ancora: qualunque cosa avvenga di te e di me, comunque si svolga la nostra vita, non accadrà mai che, nel momento in cui tu mi chiami seriamente e senta d'aver bisogno di me, mi trovi sordo al tuo appello. Mai!”
― Herman Hesse

“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

“Vosotros los sabios y artistas tenéis toda clase de cosas raras dentro de la cabeza, pero sois hombres como los demás, y también nosotros tenemos nuestros sueños y nuestros juegos en el magín. Porque observé, señor sabio, que te apurabas un poquito al ir a contarme tu historia de Goethe, tenias que esforzarte por hacer comprensibles tus cosas ideales a una muchacha tan sencilla. Y por eso he querido hacerte ver que no necesitas esforzarte. Yo te entiendo ya.”
― Herman Hesse

“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

“Y me asombré de cuán rica en amoríos, en propicios instantes, en redenciones había sido mi vida, mi vida de lobo estepario aparentemente tan pobre y sin cariño. Había desperdiciado y evitado casi todas las ocasiones, había pasado por encima de ellas, las había olvidado inmediatamente; pero aquí estaban todas guardadas, sin que faltara una, a centenares.”
― Herman Hesse

“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

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

“I belonged to her not just as this one piece in my game of chess-- I belonged to her wholly. Oh, I would now so lay out the pieces in my game that all was centered in her and led to fulfillment.”
― Herman Hesse, STEPPENWOLF

“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

“I was a man who searches, and I am still one, but I no longer seek in the stars and in books; I am beginning to hear the teachings of my own blood.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian

“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

“Creo que la lucha contra la muerte, el afán absoluto y terco de querer vivir es el estimulo por el cual han actuado y han vivido todos los hombres sobresalientes.”
― Herman Hesse, STEPPENWOLF

“How long had he not heard that voice, how long had he not reached any height, how even and bleak his path had been. For many long years, with no high goal, no thirst, no exaltation, he had been content with minor pleasures and yet never satisfied! All these years unbeknownst to himself, he had striven and yearned to become a human being like these many, like these children; and yet his life had been much poorer and more wretched than their lives, for their goals were not his, their worries not his.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“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

“No hay tiempo para ser devota.

¿No hay tiempo? ¿Es que se necesita tiempo para eso?

Oh, ya lo creo; para ser devoto se necesita tiempo, mejor dicho, se necesita algo más: independencia del tiempo. No puedes ser seriamente devoto y a la vez vivir en la realidad y, además tomarla en serio.”
― Herman Hesse

“Estas imágenes eran cientos, con y sin nombre surgieron todas otra vez; subían jóvenes y nuevas del pozo de esta noche de amor, y volví a darme cuenta de lo que en mi miseria hacía tiempo había olvidado, que ellas constituían la propiedad y el valor de mi existencia, que seguían viviendo indestructibles, sucesos eternizados como estrellas que había olvidado y, sin embargo, no podía destruir, cuya serie era la leyenda de mi vida y cuyo brillo astral era el valor indestructible de mi ser.”
― Herman Hesse

“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