Quotes by : Hermann Hesse

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment....

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant....

Did you," so he asked him at one time, "did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no....

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept....

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance....

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny....

All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing,....

And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had....

After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his desire....

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.