1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

Mas em meio a essa serena felicidade me invadia, de quando em vez, uma profunda tristeza, pois sabia muito bem que isso não podia durar muito. Meu destino não era viver em paz e na abundância, mas na agitação e no tormento. Sentia que mais cedo ou mais tarde haveria de despertar daquelas gratas imagens de amor e achar-me novamente só, inteiramente isolado no mundo frio dos demais, onde só havia para mim luta e solidão e nunca amor ou compaixão.

... E por que têm medo? Só se tem medo quando não se está de acordo consigo mesmo. Têm medo porque jamais se atreveram a perseguir seus próprios impulsos interiores. Uma comunidade formada por indivíduos atemorizados com o desconhecido que levam dentro de si.

...and as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist.

Wie ein schüchternes Mädchen blieb er sitzen und wartet, ob einer käme ihn zu holen, ein Stärkerer und Mutigerer als er, der ihn mitrisse und zum Glücklichsein zwänge.

Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado a ofrecer amor y veneración, cuando hemos sido discípulos y amigos de todo corazón, el momento de reconocer que la corriente dominante en nosotros se aparta de la persona querida es amargo y terrible.

At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever. That was the last shudder of his awakening, the last pains of birth. Immediately he moved on again and began to walk quickly and impatiently, no longer homewards, no longer to his father, no longer looking backwards.

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.

There was only greed for living and dread, and out of dread, out of stupid childish dread of the cold, of loneliness, of death, two people fled to one another, kissed, embraced, rubbed cheek to cheek, put leg to leg, cast new human beings into the world. That was how it was.