Hesse Quotes
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They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.
...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.
A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
It was fortunate that love did not need words
He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.
He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and does not know that she is giving
Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.'Merchant: 'Well spoken...