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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 32d0e17 | Govorim to ozbiljno. Nije nas zadatak da se priblizimo jedan drugom, kao sto se ne sastaju ni sunce ni mesec, ni more ni kopno. Nas dvojca smo, prijatelju dragi, sunce i mesec, mi smo more i kopno. Nas cilj nije da se slijemo jedan sa drugim vec da saznamo jedan drugoga i da jedan u drugom naucimo da vidimo i postujemo ono sto taj drugi jeste: nasa suprotnost i dopuna. Duboko je uvlacio u sebe vlazni, gorki miris vazduha u parku i pri svako.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| fb25cfc | Darum verbrennt der Burger heute den als Ketzer, hangt den als Verbrecher, dem er ubermorgen Denkmaler setzt. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 42b75ac | You had an image of life inside you, a belief or an ideal, that you were ready to do good deeds, to suffer, and to sacrifice - and by degrees you noticed that the world had no need of your good deeds, or sacrifices, and such like; that life was not an heroic tale, with roles for heroes, and such like, but a comfortable bourgeois parlour, where one is perfectly satisfied with eating and drinking, coffee and knitted stockings, tarot readings .. | life-philosophy truth wisdom | Hermann Hesse | |
| ea46d84 | Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e7eb557 | O music! A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly only; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse, and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to depressed spirits. The melody of a folk song can do that. And first of all harmony! For each harmonious .. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5f73e8e | Meile galima iskaulyti, nupirkti, gauti dovanu, atrasti gatveje, bet jega jos isplesti negalima. | love siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | |
| 063f920 | He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5afb2d0 | La nostra meta non e di trasformarci l'un l'altro, ma di conoscerci l'un l'altro e d'imparare a vedere e a rispettare nell'altro cio che egli e: il nostro opposto e il nostro completamento. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4aa85a8 | On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found ... a swarm of ... small, blue butterflies drinking the water. ... I only went that way on sunny days and each time the dense, blue swarm was there, and each time it was a holiday. | beauty-in-nature nature | Hermann Hesse | |
| 5fd57cd | No debe usted entregarse a deseos en los que no cree. Se lo que desea. Pero tiene que saber renunciar a esos deseos o desearlos de verdad. Cuando llegue a pedir con la plena seguridad de que su deseo va a ser cumplido, este sera satisfecho. Sin embargo, usted desea y al mismo tiempo se arrepiente de ello con miedo. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 55a8f74 | to learn how to love the world, in order to stop comparing it to some world I wished, I imagined, some kind of perfection I had made up, but to leave it as it is and to love it and to enjoy being a part of it.--These, oh Govinda, are some of the thoughts which have come into my mind. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 2de3987 | I felt and saw the night outside deep within me. Wind and wetness, autumn, bitter smell of foliage, scattered leaves of the elm tree. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b14d8f4 | I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the difference between us, the difference between men akin to their father and those who take their destiny from a woman; the difference between spirit and intellect. | intellect narziss spirit | Hermann Hesse | |
| e08ba8c | love can be obtained by begging, buying, receiving it as a gift, finding it in the street, but it cannot be stolen. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8c2f488 | Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8158b54 | A goal stood before Siddhartha, a single goal: to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of wishing, empty of dreams, empty of joy and sorrow. Dead to himself, not to be a self any more, to find tranquility with an emptied heard, to be open to miracles in unselfish thoughts, that was his goal. Once all of the Self was overcome and had died, once every desire and every urge was silent in the heart, then the ultimate part of me had to awake, th.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0349380 | It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness. | friendship hermann-hesse language love understanding | Hermann Hesse | |
| 6e9e22b | he called himself the Steppenwolf, and this too estranged and disturbed me a little. What an expression...a wolf of the steppes that had lost its way and strayed into the towns and the life of the herd, a more striking image could not be found for his shy loneliness, his savagery, his restlessness, his homesickness, his homelessness. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9735cc4 | Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness and apparent failure; then came weariness and disillusionment, and so they lost their way again, they became blind again. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f0bea1b | For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead. | extraordinary free hermann-hesse hesse inspirational life metamorphoses pictor-s | Hermann Hesse | |
| a7c5a63 | Did you," so he asked him at one time, "did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no time?" Vasudeva's face was filled with a bright smile. "Yes, Siddhartha," he spoke. "It is this what you mean, isn't it: that the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not t.. | suffering time | Hermann Hesse | |
| c502023 | A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly ... ; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to the benumbed. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f2a0d1f | Je suis tres content de mon bonheur, je puis encore le subir un bon moment. Seulement, quand il me donne une heure de repit pour prendre conscience, pour redevenir nostalgique, alors toute cette nostalgie tend non pas a garder toujours ce bonheur, mais a souffrir encore, en plus grand, en plus beau qu'autrefois. Je me consume du besoin d'une souffrance qui me rende pret et desireux de mourir. | mélancolie mort nostalgie | Hermann Hesse | |
| f948c75 | kn lmwt ybdw ldh`an, wkn qwyan wTyban m`an. k'b Hnwn y`wd l~ lbyt bbn th. w`lmt fj'@ mn jdyd 'n lmwt hw 'khwn ldhky lTyb ldhy y`rf ls`@ lmnsb@ wldhy ynbGy `lyn 'n nntZrh amnyn mTmy'nyn | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 789c8eb | Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world. Many a one never becomes a human-being, but remains a frog, lizard, or ant. Many a one is a human-being above and a fish below. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| a64d71f | Without You" My Pillow gazes upon me at night Empty as a gravestone; I never thought it would be so bitter To be alone, Not to lie down asleep in your hair. I lie alone in a silent house, The hanging lamp darkened, And gently stretch out my hands To gather in yours, And softly press my warm mouth Toward you, and kiss myself, exhausted and weak- Then suddenly I'm awake And all around me the cold night grows still. The star in the window shin.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4a663e1 | His face was still more clever and spiritual than others, but it seldom smiled, and one after the other it was taking on the traits one so often observes in the faces of the wealthy: that look of dissatisfaction, infirmity, displeasure, lethargy, unkindness. Slowly he was being stricken with the maladies that afflict rich people's souls. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9f5aa25 | Vasudeva listened with great attention. Listening carefully, he let everything enter his mind, birthplace and childhood, all that learning, all that searching, all joy, all distress. This was among the ferryman's virtues one of the greatest: like only a few, he knew how to listen. Without him having spoken a word, the speaker sensed how Vasudeva let his words enter his mind, quiet, open, waiting, how he did not lose a single one, awaited no.. | inspirational listener thoughts | Hermann Hesse | |
| fcd57d1 | As far as teachers are concerned, they define young geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love at fifteen, can be found at sixteen hanging out in bars, read forbidden books, write scandalous essays, occasionally stare down a teacher in class, are marked in the attendance book as rebels, and are budding candidates for room-arrest. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 62398b0 | The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 243af31 | Bir kimse ariyorsa, gozu aradigi seyden baskasini gormez cokluk, bir turlu bulmasini beceremez, disaridan hicbir seyi alip kendi icine aktaramaz, cunku akli fikri aradigi seydedir hep, cunku bir amaci vardir, cunku bu amacin buyusune kapilmistir. Aramak, bir amaci olmak demektir. bulmaksa ozgur olmak, disa acik bulunmak, hicbir amaci olmamak. Sen ey saygideger kisi, belki gercekten arayan birisin, cunku amacinin pesinde kostugundan hemen go.. | siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | |
| b6ebd35 | We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, but official duties left him no time for such a task. He had learned to curb his own wishes. Once he remarked to one of his tutors: "It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. But I was exactly the same when I was still a student. We study and work, don't waste much time, and think we may r.. | duties freedom possibilities time youth | Hermann Hesse | |
| 2515182 | Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5d0d2e4 | Samoca je neovisnost, nju sam prizeljkivao i godinama je nastojao izboriti. Bila je hladna, oh da, ali je bila i tiha, divno tiha i velika nalik na hladnu tihu prostoriju u kojoj se vrte zvijezde. | stepski-vuk | Hermann Hesse | |
| e65ddc8 | all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children already have the old person in themselves, all infants already have death, all dying people the eternal life. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0e0c0a7 | everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b64d4e6 | Let the things be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like me. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5ed8c41 | All this seemed a decorative newly painted picture behind clear new glass. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9bbeb0f | Narziss was dark and thin of face, and Goldmund open and radiant as a flower. Narziss was a thinker and anatomiser, Goldmund a dreamer and a child. Yet things common to both could bridge these differences. Both were knightly and delicate; both set apart by visible signs from their fellows, since both had received the particular admonishment of fate. | goldmund narziss | Hermann Hesse | |
| 7445bdd | For every true statement there is an opposite one that is also true; that language and the confines of time lead people to adhere to one fixed belief that does not account for the fullness of the truth. Because nature works in a self-sustaining cycle, every entity carries in it the potential for its opposite and so the world must always be considered complete. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| fffa655 | l ywjd fy ldny shy 'shd fshlan mn 'n yfkr lnsn fy 'mr nsn yHbh. tlk 'fkr tshbh b`D lny lsh`by@ wl`skry@ lty t`dd alf l'shy | love | Hermann Hesse | |
| 63bfe5f | The world has become lovelier. I am alone, and I don't suffer from my loneliness. I don't want life to be anything other than what it is | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 932b6ee | Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?" "How come?" | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 32e90c4 | You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don't even grant that people have hearts if they are less talkative about their feelings than you. | Hermann Hesse |