Hermann Hesse Quote

Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there e...

Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as thou...

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, who ever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars,...

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.

Yaşam konusunda bir fikrin vardı; içinde bir inanç, bir beklenti yaşıyordu; eylemlere, acılara ve özverilere hazırdın. Ama yavaş yavaş anladın ki, dünya hiç de senden eylemlerde ve özverilerde bulunma...

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God H...

Çok uzun bir suskunluk döneminin ardından yüreğimdeki selin ateşli esrikliğine yeniden gömülmüş, duyguların özgür yüceliklerine, acı ve sevincin birbirinden ayrılamadığı, ruhtaki tüm kızgın ateşin ve...

We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wak...