Hermann Hesse

...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#buddhism #monasticism #siddhartha #siddhartha-gautama #love

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. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#death #demian #hermann-hesse #death

لم يوجد الحب ليجعلنا سعداء، بل أنا أعتقد أن الحب وجد ليبين لنا مدى قوتنا على المعاناة والاحتمال ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#pain #strength #love

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hermann-hesse #ideals #war #men

Ich werde stehen und warten. Ich werde müde werden. Ich werde nicht einschlafen. Ich werde sterben. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#existence #sleep #waiting #death

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#imagination #life #personal-joy #the-world #dreams

If I know what love is, it is because of you. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#love

Faith is stronger than so-called reason. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#h-h #rationality #reason #faith

Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hermann-hesse #love

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life-of-the-mind #thoughts #life