1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot.

All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists