"A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth."
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Hermann Hesse
13 quotes
Quotes by Hermann Hesse
"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins."
"Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret."
"É muito mais lisonjeiro,(...)lutar-se por alguma coisa bela e ideal e saber ao mesmo tempo que não se conseguirá alcançá-la. Os ideais serão algo que se possa alcançar? Viveremos para cabar com a morte? Não, viveremos para temê-la e também para amá-la, e precisamente por causa da morte é que nossa vida vez por outra resplandece tão radiosa num belo instante."
"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin."
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
"Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them."
"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins."
"Uit deze belevenissen, die niemand ziet, bestaat de innerlijke, wezenlijke lijn van ons lot. Zulk een breuk en scheur groeit weer dicht, hij heelt en wordt vergeten, maar in de diepst verborgen hoek leeft en bloedt hij verder."
"Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest."
"If I know what love is, it is because of you."