Famous Quotes by Hermann Hesse

“My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.”

Hermann Hesse

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

Hermann Hesse

“You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”

Hermann Hesse

“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”

Hermann Hesse

“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”

Hermann Hesse

“A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.”

Hermann Hesse

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

Hermann Hesse