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
hurt love-you suffering
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
disappointment suffering vex
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
suffering dying life-is
All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.
real two suffering
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
suffering littles sake
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured....
fate fighting suffering
Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
pain laughing suffering
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
suffering investing enough
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
individuality suffering flesh
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
suffering sorrow ends
Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.
two suffering culture
When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists
finding indeed means perhaps seeking striving towards worthy
Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
clear poet year
From my thirteenth year on, it was clear to me that I wanted to be a poet or nothing at all.
attracted begins ceases love merely nor power
Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not