51 Quotes About Hesse

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead.

However, one can study someone very closely and then one can often know almost exactly what he thinks or feels and thenone can also anticipate what he will do the next moment. It's simple enough, only people don't know it.

I don’t write literature but simply confessions, just as a drowning man or a man dying of poisoning no longer worries about the state of his hair or the modulation of his voice, but instead simply lets out a scream.

Ich bin ein Stern am Firmament,der die Welt betrachtet, die Welt verachtetund in der eignen Glut verbrennt.Ich bin das Meer, das nächtens stürmt,das klagende Meer, das opferschwerzu alten Sünden neu türmt.Ich bin von Eurer Welt verbannt,vom Stolz erzogen, vom Stolz belogen,ich bin der König ohne Land.Ich bin die stumme Leidenschaft,im Haus ohne Herd, im Krieg ohne Schwertund krank an meiner eignen Kraft.