Hermann Hesse Quotes

• It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

  Hermann Hesse

• It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

  Hermann Hesse

• It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

  Hermann Hesse

• It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

  Hermann Hesse

• In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

  Hermann Hesse

• If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

  Hermann Hesse

• I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

  Hermann Hesse

• For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

  Hermann Hesse

• But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

  Hermann Hesse

• Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

  Hermann Hesse

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

  Hermann Hesse

• Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

  Hermann Hesse

• When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

  Hermann Hesse

• What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

  Hermann Hesse

• What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

  Hermann Hesse

• To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

  Hermann Hesse

• To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

  Hermann Hesse

• Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

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• There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

  Hermann Hesse

• 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.

  Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse (65)

Birth:	2nd July, 1877
Death:	9th August, 1962
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Writer

About

Hermann Karl Hesse was born in Calw, Württemberg, Germany. He was a German novelist, poet and short story writer. His best-known works(novels) include: Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game. He wrote other novels include: Peter Camenzind, Beneath the Wheel, Gertrud, Rosshalde, Knulp, and Narcissus and Goldmund. He wrote several poems, including One Hour After Midnight. He wrote several short stories include: Strange News from Another Star and Kinderseele. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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