1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.

But things are not so simple in life as in our thoughts, nor so rough and ready as in our poor idiotic language; and Harry lies about himself twice over when he employs this niggardly wolf-theory.

Look at a person carefully long enough, and you’ll know more about him than he himself does.” The.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One’s born and at once one is guilty. You must have had a remarkable sort of religious education if you did not know that.

People like you and me are quite lonely really but we still have each other, we have the secret satisfaction of being different, of rebelling, of desiring the unusual.

Disclosing his wound to this listener was the same as bathing it in the river, until it became cool and one with the river.

His small fragile ship had barely escaped a disaster; now it enters a region of new storms and uncharted depths through which even the best led... cannot find a guide. He must find his own way and be his own saviour.

Perhaps that you’re searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don’t find the time for finding?” “How come?

Narziss, I am guilty of having passed rash judgement on you. I had thought you proud, and perhaps I did you an injustice. You are much alone, brother; you have many to admire you, but no friends. I wished to find the pretext to chide you a little. But I find none. I wanted to see you as disobedient as young men of your age so easily are. But you never disobey. Sometimes Narziss, you make me uneasy.