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Herman Hesse Quotes

Herman Hesse quotes

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

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Herman Hesse quote: "My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on..."
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life. Herman Hesse
The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life. Herman Hesse
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is... Herman Hesse
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. Herman Hesse
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. Herman Hesse
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. Herman Hesse
I havetransported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has beennothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek moneyand business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river wasobstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quicklyacross that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four orfive, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard itsvoice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred tothem, as it has... Herman Hesse
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged? to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony. Herman Hesse
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got. Herman Hesse
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing. Herman Hesse
I understood it all. I understood Pablo. I understood Mozart, and somewhere behind me I heard his ghastly laughter. I knew that all the hundred thousand pieces of life's game were in my pocket. A glimpse of its meaning had stirred my reason and I was determined to begin the game afresh. I would sample its tortures once more and shudder again at its senselessness. I would traverse not once more, but often, the hell of my inner being. Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse quote: "You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to..."
You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions. Herman Hesse
That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil? Herman Hesse
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side. Herman Hesse
It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and be accessible to my influence, a transcendent life, or at least the desire for it, in the midst of the money-and-war-culture which the world has become. Herman Hesse

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