The best quotes by Hermann Hesse

Poet, writer, aphorist and philosopher, Nobel prize for literature, born monday july 2, 1877 in Calw, Württemberg (Germany), died thursday august 9, 1962 in Montagnola (Switzerland)
You can find this author also in Poems.

Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
The young girl totally absorbed me, without me joining the general conversation. I felt her living and moving like surrounded by a gentle music, and the delicate, deep fascination of her being encircled me dense, sweet and strong like the scent of a flower. As much as good this was for me, I could feel without a doubt that seeing her could not calm me and satisfy me and that the pain, if I would be again separated from her, would have become much more excruciating. In the delicate person of her, my fate and the flourishing spring of my life seemed to look at me, that I had to grab and to hold, because they would nevercome back. It was not a physical desire of kisses and of a night of love...It was more a pleased confidence that in that dear figure my destiny wanted to meet me, and that the spirit of her was friend to me, and that my happiness had also to be hers.
Hermann Hesse
Rate this quote: Send
    Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
    Young people believe to live forever, and therefore they favour every thought and every desire. The old ones are already shrewed that somewhere there is an end, and that all that is possessed and it makes for one's self, at the end it will fall in a grave and it will not have had some value. For this they need a various eternity and to believe that they do not only work for the worms. That's why there are wife and sons, transactions, job, homeland: for giving to a scope to the hard work and the daily sacrifices.
    Hermann Hesse
    Rate this quote: Send