Struggling, despairing, Klein fought with his demon. All the new understanding and sense of redemption this fateful time had yielded had surged, in the course of this past day, to such a wave of thoug...
Sprach Siddhartha: Was sollte ich dir, Ehrwürdiger, wohl zu sagen haben? Vielleicht das, daß du allzu viel suchst? Daß du vor Suchen nicht zum Finden kommst?
Some day you will think of what I am going to say to you now: our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wise...
Siddhartha had one single goal before him -- to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of desire, empty of dreams, empty of joy and sorrow. To die away from himself, no longer to be I, to find the peace...
Searching means having a goal, but finding means being free, being open, having no goal.
Se per la tua gioia hai bisogno del permesso degli altri, sei proprio un povero sciocco.
Reían, alardeaban, se alegraban por el aguardiente y el café que beberían, cantaban, maldecían. Ninguno vio la belleza del bosque nevado, ni el brillo de la alta meseta, ni la luna roja que colgaba so...
Pero cuando se conoce lo otro, ya no se puede elegir el camino de la mayoría. Sinclair, el camino de la mayoría es fácil, el nuestro difícil. Caminemos.
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself! Nevertheless,
Nothing is effected by daemons, there are no daemons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
Non puoi essere vagabondo e artista e contemporaneamente borghese e uomo sano e decoroso. Ti vuoi ubriacare, allora tieniti anche il mal di testa! Se dici di sì alla luce del sole e alle fantasie legg...
No, a true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, to every goal; nothing separated him from a...
No road will bring us together.Don't speak like that.I'm serious. We are not meant to come together, not any more than sun and moon were meant to come together, or sea and land. We are sun and moon, d...
No podía negar que con cada una de estas conmociones al final había ganado algo, un poco de libertad, de espíritu, de profundidad, pero también de soledad, de incomprensión, de frío.
No pasaba una hora sin que percibiera mi destino como infeliz y lo maldijera, fue justamente mi sufrimiento, mi obsesión con el sufrimiento, lo que me sirvió como protección y escudo contra el mundo e...
Ninguna idea le era más odiosa y horrible que la de tener que ejercer un cargo, someterse a una distribución del tiempo, obedecer a otros. Una oficina, una cancillería, un negociado eran cosas para él...
Narcissus looked at him gravely: I take you seriously when you are Goldmund. But you're not always Goldmund. I wish nothing more than to see you become Goldmund through and through. You are not a scho...
My gift and uniqueness consist in this: I store images of the external world in my head, and out of them I am able to produce new images and arrangements only for myself. I can conceive the entire wor...