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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 69e5bd7 | He felt sandbagged. Doomsday, Armageddon. Booze begets instant misconduct and regret. He walked to the couch and fell down. | James Ellroy | ||
| e650928 | They moved me and scared me. I replayed the tapes and nailed the source of my fear. The women sounded smug. They were entrenched and content in their victimhood. | James Ellroy | ||
| efc2956 | She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses. | perfidia | James Ellroy | |
| 5b07330 | Was it not a comedy, a strange and stupid matter, this repetition, this running around in a fateful circle? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6fd56ec | Every age, every culture, every ethos and tradition has a style of its own, has the varieties of gentleness and harshness, of beauty and cruelty that are appropriate to it. Each age will take certain kinds of suffering for granted, will patiently accept certain wrongs. Human life becomes a real hell of suffering only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. Required to live in the Middle Ages, someone from the Graeco-Roman period .. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| fafcac3 | The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6099ec8 | Who protected Siddhartha the Samana from Sansara, from sin, greed and folly? Could his father's piety, his teacher's exhortations, his own knowledge, his own seeking, protect him? Which father, which teacher, could prevent him from living his own life, from soiling himself with life, from loading himself with sin, from swallowing the bitter drink himself, from finding his own path? Do you think, my dear friend, that anybody is spared this p.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| da08f8b | human life, even upon a small stage, always offers an amusing drama and one well worth consideration. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 003fe09 | I have seen many innocent people suffer and die, and many a wicked man swim in prosperity. Have you completely forgotten and abandoned us, are you completely disgusted with your creation, do you want us all to perish? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 11feb73 | The person who truly wants nothing except his destiny no longer has others of his own kind; he stands completely alone and has only the chill of outer space around him. You know, that's Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4ab9d45 | I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9e0a62c | I had to become a fool, to find Atman in me again. I had to sin, to be able to live again. Where else might my path lead me to? It is foolish, this path, it moves in loops, perhaps it is going around in a circle. Let it go as it likes, I want to to take it. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5db9aa8 | To stiffen into stone, to persevere! We long forever for the right to stay. But all that stays with us is fear, And we shall never rest upon our way. | law-of-flux | Hermann Hesse | |
| f4f4fcd | When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel tle very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against thi.. | middle-class rebellion | Hermann Hesse | |
| aaa2b07 | shyd Gm ngyz bshd m zyb hm hst | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 97c1985 | Cok uzun bir suskunluk doneminin ardindan yuregimdeki selin atesli esrikligine yeniden gomulmus, duygularin ozgur yuceliklerine, aci ve sevincin birbirinden ayrilamadigi, ruhtaki tum kizgin atesin ve gucun bir araya gelip tek bir aleve donuserek dimdik yukseldigi o noktaya kadar cikmistim. | hermann-hesse ruveyda | Hermann Hesse | |
| 5a7c8f4 | But each one is a gamble of Nature, a hopeful attempt at forming a human being. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9f8828f | When someone is seeking,' said Siddhartha, 'it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for .. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0c2e8e6 | I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace, to hear Om again, to sleep deeply again and to awaken refreshed again. I had to become a fool again in order to find Atman in myself. I had to sin in order to live again. Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it. He wa.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6c1b152 | You are like me, you are different from most people. You are Kamala, nothing else, and inside of you, there is a peace and refuge, to which you can go at every hour of the day and be at home at yourself, as I can also do. Few people have this, and yet all could have it. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8f9695b | But it was right that it should be so; my eyes and heart acclaim it. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace, to hear Om again, to sleep deeply again and to awaken refreshed again. I had to become a fool again in order to find Atman in myself. I had to sin in order to live again. Whither will my path yet lead me? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 813cb56 | Nothing," said he in the mirror, "I am only waiting. I am waiting for death." "Where is death then?" "Coming," said the other." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9f30d97 | Now and then I have expressed the opinion that every nation, and every person, would do better, instead of rocking himself to sleep with political catchwords about war-guilt, to ask himself how far his own faults and negligencies and evil tendencies are guilty of the war and all the other wrongs of the world, and that there lies the only possible means of avoiding the next war. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4c85783 | Had he ever lost his heart so much to something, had he ever loved any person thus, thus blindly, thus sufferingly, thus unsuccessfully, and yet thus happily? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 272cb22 | When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable o.. | inspirational searching-and-finding thoughts | Hermann Hesse | |
| 023b140 | Und auch das unglucklichste Leben hat seine Sonnenstunden und seine kleinen Glucksblumen zwischen dem Sand und Gestein. So war es denn auch bei dem Steppenwolf. Er war meistens sehr unglucklich, das ist nicht zu leugnen, und unglucklich konnte er auch andre machen, namlich wenn er sie liebte und sie ihn. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 2a2f7bf | Both thought and the senses were fine things, behind both of them lay hidden the last meaning; it was worth while listening to them both, to play with both, neither to despise nor overrate either of them, but to listen intently to both voices. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5f32e6f | I don't know who lives there, but there must be a paradise of cleanliness and dust-free bourgeois existence behind that glass door, an Eden of order and painstaking devotion to little routines and chores that is touching.' Since | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 7517aa5 | They stayed for rapt moments in the crystal sphere of this soul, as if in a realm of invisible radiation, listening to unearthly music, and then returned to their daily lives with hearts cleansed and strengthened, as if descending from a high mountain peak. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 87e9217 | The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind chance. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity. The grace of a minuet by Handel or Couperin, the sensuality sublimated into delicate gesture to be fo.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 60e87ea | the face struck me at that moment as neither masculine nor childlike, neither old nor young, but somehow a thousand years old, somehow timeless, bearing the scars of an entirely different history than we knew. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| cb631a4 | Think of it... that in your heart there is an answer to all the things and sights of the world, that everything concerns you, that you ought to know as much about everything as it is possible for man to know. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6259f76 | this water ran and ran, incessantly it ran, and was nevertheless always there, was always at all times the same and yet new in every moment! | Hermann Hesse | ||
| cb6d00b | Even more remote from his way of thinking, even more impossible than any other thought, would have been words such as this: "Is it only I alone who have created this experience, or is it objective reality? Does the Master have the same feelings as I, or would mine amuse him? Are my thoughts new, unique, my own, or have the Master and many before him experienced and thought exactly the same?" No, for him there were no such analyses and diffe.. | reality subjectivity unity | Hermann Hesse | |
| 9140633 | And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in his homesickness, it became clear to him that he was, after all, destined to be a poet, and he saw that in poets' dreams reside a beauty and enchantment that one seeks in vain in the things of the real world. | poet | Hermann Hesse | |
| 8b770f8 | Lo que esto significa, un ser vivo, se sabe hoy menos que nunca, y por eso se destruye a montones de seres humanos, cada uno de los cuales es una creacion valiosa y unica de la naturaleza. Si no fueramos algo mas que seres unicos, seria facil hacernos desaparecer del mundo con una bala de fusil, y entonces no tendria sentido contar historias. Pero cada hombre no es solamente el; tambien es el punto unico y especial, en todo caso importante .. | emil-sinclair hermann-hesse | Hermann Hesse | |
| 0a7706d | 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 | ||
| 9e4ab2c | Disclosing his wound to his listener was the same as bathing it in the river, until it became cool and one with the river. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 720460f | After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his desire was foolish, which had made him go up to this place, that he could not help his son, that he was not allowed to cling him. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had .. | love parenthood | Hermann Hesse | |
| 11e8603 | But he has not killed himself, for a glimmer of belief still tells him that he is to drink this frightful suffering in his hear to the dregs, and that it is of this suffering he must die. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| bd55620 | Searching means having a goal, but finding means being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don't see, which are directly in front of your eyes. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| af96e17 | The water changed to vapour and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed a new, flowed anew. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8ddcb28 | Aquella mirada decia: "!Mira, estos monos somos nosotros! !Mira, asi es el hombre!" Y toda celebridad; toda discrecion, todas las conquistas del espiritu, todos los avances hacia lo grande, lo sublime y lo eterno dentro de lo humano, se vinieron a tierra y eran un juego de monos..." -- | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9c16f97 | 'Hs 'nh lys Gryb mDThd hrb,w 'nh mnbsT lSdr,l yfkr fy shy' ,w l yshtq ly shy',w 'nh mndmj fy lHDr lhdy' lSfy lqryb ,w 'nh shkr,mndhsh qlyl mn nfsh w mn hdhh lHl@ lty y`nyh n`m mGtbT w mndhsh mn hdh lnshrH lmjrd mn lrGbt,w mn hdh lSf lmjrd mn ltwtr,w mn hdhh lTryq@ lyqZ@ lmjdy@ mn ltmt` w lt'ml | Hermann Hesse |