“Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”

— Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)

About Hermann Hesse

1877 – 1962

German-Swiss novelist and poet, Nobel laureate in Literature (1946), author of "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf".

“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”

“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.”

“In love of home, the love of country has its rise.”

“The best way to worship God is to love your wife.”

“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”

“Say, is not absence death to those who love?”

“Love is anterior to life, Posterior to death.”

“He loved no other place, and yet Home was no home to him.”