1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Ce qui est en toi, ce qui fait ta vie, le sait déjà. Il est si bon de savoir qu’en nous réside quelqu'un qui sait tout, qui veut tout ce qui est pour notre bien et l’accomplit mieux que nous-mêmes.

I can think, I can wait, I can fast.

Possiamo comprenderci l’un l’altro, ma ognuno può interpretare soltanto se stesso.

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

No man has ever been utterly himself, yet every man strives to be so, the dull, the intelligent, each one as best as he can.

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

My conscious self lived within the familiar and sanctioned world, it denied the new world that dawned within me.

There was nothing to be made of us intellectuals. We were a superfluous, irresponsible lot of talented chatterboxes for whom reality had no meaning.