You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
Herman Hesse
He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value... he has given to me myself.
Herman Hesse
I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.
Herman Hesse
I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
Herman Hesse
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me.
Herman Hesse
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
Herman Hesse
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
Herman Hesse
In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.
Herman Hesse
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
Herman Hesse
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Herman Hesse
