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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.
All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; he had not been with it. Now he was with it, he was part of it. Light and shadow ran through his eyes, stars and moon ran through his heart.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
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.
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.
