More quotes by Hermann Hesse

"Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them."
"Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret."
"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."
"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins."