1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

To be a bear and love a she-bear, that would not be such a bad life, and would, at least, be a far better one than to keep his reason and his thoughts, with all the rest that made him human, and yet live on alone, unloved, in sadness.

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

I still believed firmly in chance at that time.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

Du hast also immer schwierige und komplizierte Sachen getrieben, und die einfachen hast du gar nicht gelernt.

Go now and kiss your mother, tell her where you are going to.

That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier...