Hermann Hesse Quotes
1877 – 1962
German-Swiss novelist and poet, Nobel laureate in Literature (1946), author of "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf".
22 quotesAbout Hermann Hesse on Wikipedia
“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
“I have never lost the feeling of contradiction that lies behind all knowledge.”
“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world.”
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.”
“Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept.”
“It seems to me, Govinda, that Love is the most important thing in the world.”
“A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self.”
“One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh.”
“Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”
“Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.”
