English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Herman Hesse Quotes

Herman Hesse quotes about love

Deutsch Author, Writer July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962

Herman Hesse quotes in french
Herman Hesse quotes in russian
Herman Hesse quotes in german
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. Herman Hesse
It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other interests, including those of one's country. Herman Hesse
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Herman Hesse
And here now is a bit of doctrine that will make you laugh: Love, O Govinda, appears to me more important than all other matters. To see through the world, to explain it, to scorn it--this may be the business of great thinkers. But what interests me is being able to love the world, not to scorn it, not to hate it and hate myself, but to look at it and myself and all beings with love and admiration and reverence. Herman Hesse
You love nobody. Is that not true?"Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after..."
Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. Herman Hesse
Let thethings be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like me. This is what makes them so dear andworthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can lovethem. And this is now a teaching you will laugh about: love, oh. Govinda, seems to me to be the most important thing of all. Tothoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may bethe thing great thinkers do. But I'm only interested in being able tolove the... Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came..."
Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon. Herman Hesse
That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die! Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger..."
...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving..."
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: " . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger..."
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that..."
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. Herman Hesse
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. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to..."
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves. Herman Hesse

Popular Author

Related Authors