1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable forces, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

All of a sudden there were things that concerned me again, which I could think of with joy and eagerness. All of a sudden a door was thrown open through which life came in. Perhaps I could live once more and once more be a human being. My soul that had fallen asleep in the cold and nearly frozen breathed once more, and sleepily spread its weak and tiny wings.

Statt seine Persönlichkeit zu vernichten, war es nur gelungen, ihn sich selbst hassen zu lehren.

Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done and however sincere the desire for objectivity - remains literature. History's third dimension is always fiction

Either a man goes and hangs himself, and then he hangs sure enough, and he'll have his reasons for it, or else he goes on living and then he has only living to bother himself with. Simple enough.

For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. To be sure, he suffered from dread of many things, of madness, the police, insomnia, and also dread of death. But everything he dreaded he likewise desired and longed for at the same time. He was full of burning curiosity about suffering, destruction, persecution, madness and death.

İçini tümüyle dolduran bu duygunun üzerinde düşündü ağır ağır yürüyüp giderken. Derin derin düşündü bunu, adeta derin bir su içinde kendini koyuverip duygunun ta dibine, nedenlerin bulunduğu yere kadar indi, çünkü düşünmek -öyle görünüyordu ona- nedenleri bilip tanımak demekti, ancak bu yoldan duygular bilgilere dönüşür ve yitip gitmeyerek bir varlık kazanır, içlerindeki özü ışıyarak çevrelerine yansıtırdı.

Es una mera ficción eso de que no existe un puente de unión entre una y otra gente, y que todos viven en la soledad y la incomprensión. Por lo contrario, lo que la gente tiene en común con los demás es algo más grande e importante de lo que cada ser humano tiene por naturaleza y lo que lo distingue de los demás.