Herman Hesse Quotes

Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

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

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.

Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satisfaction or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.