Once, he said to her: “You are like me, you are different from most people. You are Kamala, nothing else, and inside of you, there is a peace and refuge, to which you can go at every hour of the day and be at home at yourself, as I can also do. Few people have this, and yet all could have it.

— Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Quotes

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

— Hermann Hesse
Sad About Life Joy Loneliness About Home

My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

— Hermann Hesse

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

— Hermann Hesse

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

— Hermann Hesse

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

— Hermann Hesse

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish – and it will.

— Hermann Hesse

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

— Hermann Hesse

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

— Hermann Hesse

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

— Hermann Hesse
Fun

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

— Hermann Hesse

In the beginning was the myth.

— Hermann Hesse

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Hermann Hesse

All men of goodwill have this in common – that our works put us to shame.

— Hermann Hesse

We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

— Hermann Hesse

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

— Hermann Hesse
Real

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

— Hermann Hesse

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

— Hermann Hesse

The tree does not die, it waits.

— Hermann Hesse
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