Hermann Hesse Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.”

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”

“There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.”

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

“It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.”

“Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.”

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”

“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.”

“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”

“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.”