Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hessewas a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 July 1877
CityCalw, Germany
CountryGermany
trying impossible achieve
You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible
love relationship communication
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
spiritual hate hatred
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.
inspirational faith uplifting
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
patience revenge people
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
truth taught truth-is
The truth is lived, not taught....
love life strength
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
happiness being-happy you-make-me-happy
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
inspirational life wisdom
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
dream sweet stars
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
life-is difficult life-is-difficult
That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
holy persons
a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
positive being-yourself time
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself
creativity being-alone solitude
Solitude is independence.