Hermann Hesse Quotes & Sayings

36 most famous Hermann Hesse quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a German novelist who passed away on 8 August, 1962.

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.”

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”

“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.”

“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.”

“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.”

“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”

“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”