1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

He did sense very well that this love, this blind love for his son, was apassion, something very human, that it was Sansara, a murky source, darkwaters. Nevertheless, he felt at the same time, it was not worthless, it wasnecessary, came from the essence of his own being. This pleasure also had to beatoned for, this pain also had to be endured, these foolish acts also had to becommitted.

He did sense very well that this love, this blind love for his son, was a passion, something very human, that it was Sansara, a murky source, dark waters. Nevertheless, he felt at the same time, it was not worthless, it was necessary, came from the essence of his own being. This pleasure also had to be atoned for, this pain also had to be endured, these foolish acts also had to be committed.

Seo je tužan, osećao da u njegovom srcu nešto umire, da je prazan, da pred sobom više nema nikakve radosti, nikakav cilj. Sedeo je utonuvši u misli i čekao. Naučio je na reci jedno: da čeka, da bude strpljiv i da osluškuje.

Ne priliči mi da dajem sud o životu drugih! Jedino sam za sebe moram da presudim, da odaberem, da odbijam.

There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.

My lie has been miserable and difficult, and yet to others and sometimes to myself, it has seemed rich and wonderful. Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God’s voice can be heard

Every phenomenon on earth is a parable and every parable is an open gate (...)

Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won.