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
life happiness laughter
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.
life order secret
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
life wisdom art
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
life yoga reality
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.
life hate hippie
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
life law tree
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
life years long
That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!
life believe endure
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
helping life-is guilty
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
baby joy new-life
Words can not express the joy of new life.
love life strength
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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.
life-is difficult life-is-difficult
That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
suffering dying life-is
All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.