1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.