More quotes by Hermann Hesse

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins."
"A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth."
"Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret."
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."