Quotes by Hermann Hesse

“Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too? And could you in any way protect your son from Sansara? How could you? By me...”

“After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his desire was foolish, which had made him go up to this place, that he could not help his son, that h...”

“Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.”

“I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.”

“If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself.”

“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.”

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.”

“The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”

“Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect only once in this way and nev...”

“There is no reality except the one contained within us.”

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