"Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because ...
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
More Hermann Hesse quotes
"And was it not perhaps more childlike and human to lead a Goldmund-life, more courageous, more noble perhaps in the end to abandon oneself to the crue...
"Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because ...
"It was shameless how life made fun of one; it was a joke, a cause for weeping! Either one lived and let one's senses play, drank full at the primitive...
"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 ...
"Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
"...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything th...
"For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even mo...
"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
"There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with anim...
"He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as a...
"Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the u...
"One knew nothing. One lived and walked about on the earth or rode through the forests, and so many things looked at one with such challenge and promis...
"One thing, however, did become clear to him—why so many perfect works of art did not please him at all, why they were almost hateful and boring to him...