Charles

“There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.”
― Hermann Hesse

“To stiffen into stone, to persevere!
We long forever for the right to stay.
But all that stays with us is fear,
And we shall never rest upon our way.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages…”
― Hermann Hesse

“Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.”
― K.J. Wignall, Blood