Life should be defeated and destroyed by life itself. Fundamentally speaking, this is more noble and beautiful than using one's own hands. Source: Steppenwolf Below are 30 quotes about Hermann Hesse. You are welcome to read them.

1. The unattainable goal is my goal, the circuitous road is the path I want to take, and every break always brings new yearnings. Only after I have gone through more twists and turns and countless dreams come true will I feel disappointed and understand the true meaning. The place where all extremes and opposites disappear is Nirvana.

2. Today, I am no longer intoxicated, and I no longer want to share the beauty of the distance and my happiness with my loved ones. My heart is no longer spring; It's already summer in my heart. I no longer throw my hat into the air with joy, and I no longer sing. Now, facing the fragrant land, I am more elegant, more restrained, more profound, more refined, and more grateful than when I first encountered it. Today, I am more integrated into everything in this southern country than before; and it also tells me richer and more detailed stories. My thoughts will no longer add a dreamy color to the hazy distance. My eyes are satisfied with what I see; because I have learned to see, the world has become beautiful since then.

3. Man is an attempt and transition. He is just the narrow and dangerous bridge between nature and spirit. The innermost mission pushed him to go to the spirit, to God - but the innermost longing pulled him back to nature, to his mother source: his life swayed between these two, with fear, whispering trembling. Source: Steppenwolf

4. "When the artist stays here, in the familiar daylight, in this place where the citizens live, he is overwhelmed by the poverty of language. As a poet , he seemed to be walking on a thorny road. Once he entered the kingdom of souls, the wind whispered to him from all directions, the stars played music, and the mountains smiled at him. Then the world became perfect and became the language of God, where there is not a word missing. Not a single letter is missing, there, everything can be said, everything has a voice, everything is liberated. "Source: Pilgrim's Song

5. Once a person embarks on the path of maturity, he He will no longer lose anything, he will only gain. Knowing that the moment is coming to him too, he will find the birdcage open and flee with his last heartbeat from a world full of flaws. Source: Pilgrim's Song

6. Pay attention to health, advocate shrewdness and ability, advocate carefree optimism, dismiss all profound problems with laughter, be lazy to get to the bottom of things, and pay attention to carpe diem. The art of living - these are the slogans promulgated by contemporary people in the hope of numbing their painful memories of the world war. They are too naive and blindly imitate the United States, like an actor wearing a healthy baby mask, showing an exaggerated childishness; he always has incredible luck and a brilliant smile. This optimism is permeating our society. Peace is being whitewashed every day, photos of young movie stars are plastered everywhere, and record-breaking numbers are being broken. Source: Garden Joy

7. Life is like a big tree in the woods, we are just the wind passing through.

8. Art of all times strives to provide language for the sacred silent desires in our hearts. Source: Peter Kamenzin

9. There is nothing more futile than missing the one you love. This kind of longing is like some folk songs and war songs. Various things appear in the songs, but the chorus is repeated again and again, even if it is repeated inappropriately. Source: Peter Kamenzin

10. He no longer pursues the essence, and no longer attempts to pursue his goals on the other side of this phenomenal world. When a person looks at it with the simple and hopeless eyes of a child, the world is so beautiful: the moon and stars in the night sky are beautiful, the creeks, beaches, forests and rocks, goats and scarabs, flowers and butterflies are beautiful. beautiful. Life is truly a joy when one can be so simple, so awakened, so focused on the present moment, walking through the world without any doubts. The sunshine is new, the coolness of the shade is new, the smells of streams and cisterns are new, the tastes of pumpkins and bananas are new.

Source: Siddhartha

11. The unattainable goal is my goal, the circuitous road is the path I want to take, and every break always brings new yearnings. Only after I have gone through more twists and turns and countless dreams come true will I feel disappointed and understand the true meaning. The place where all extremes and opposites disappear is Nirvana. Source: The Song of Ticino

12. If a person wants to fully understand another person, he must have been in a similar situation, suffered similar pain, or had a similar awakening experience, but this is is very rare. Source: Glass Bead Game

13. My life is indeed weird, he thought, taking strange detours. When I was young, I only knew how to worship gods and offer sacrifices. When I was young, I only knew how to practice asceticism, thinking and sneaking, exploring Brahman, and worshiping the eternity in Atman. As a young man, I followed the example of the penitents, living in the forest, enduring heat and cold, learning to starve, and teaching my body to be numb. Then, the living Buddha's teachings inspired me wonderfully, and I felt that the understanding of the unity of the world was circulating in my body like my own blood. However, later I had to leave the Living Buddha and his great knowledge. Source: Siddhartha

14. So chic, so dignified, so conscientious, so frank, so simple and yet so mysterious. Only when a person has penetrated the deepest part of himself can he look and behave like him. I also had to reach into the deepest parts of myself. Source: Siddhartha

15. The world itself pervades both inside and outside me and never becomes one-sided. There is never a person or an event that is purely reincarnation or nirvana, and there is never a person who is completely a sage or a sinner. The world appears as it does because we have the illusion that time is something real. Time has no substance, Govinda, I have realized this repeatedly. And if time is not real, then the so-called dividing lines between this world and eternity, pain and bliss, good and evil are just an illusion. Source: Siddhartha

16. I have no right to judge other people’s lives. I can only make judgments for myself. Meaning and reality are not hidden behind things, but reside in the things themselves and in all phenomena of things. When a person can be so simple, so awakened, so focused on the present, walking through this world without any doubts, life is truly a joy. People should only obey their inner voice, not succumb to the drive of any external force, and wait for the moment of awakening; this is a good and necessary behavior, and everything else is meaningless. Source: Siddhartha

17. If those strong people who rely on money and machines can live carefree for a generation, then they will definitely have to rely on doctors, teachers, artists and magic to live in the future. At the same time, a high price must be paid to lead them into the mysteries of beauty and soul. Source: The Song of Ticino

18. Generally speaking, for a shallow person, it may be easier to describe things that do not exist than concrete things, because he can put them into words irresponsibly. , however, for pious and rigorous historians, the opposite is true. However, it is even more necessary to tell people about something whose existence cannot be proven and whose future cannot be speculated. Pious and rigorous people explore them as things that already exist to a certain extent, which just brings them one step closer to things that exist and may be born. Source: Glass Bead Game

19. Like a veil, like a layer of mist, a kind of spiritual weariness settled on Siddhartha - getting thicker day by day, and month by month. The land gets darker every month and heavier every year. Just as a new garment becomes worn over time, loses its bright color, becomes dirty and wrinkled, has frayed seams, and has frayed and fragile spots here and there. Source: Siddhartha

20. The bird wants to break free from its shell. The egg is the world. In order for man to be born into the world, he must destroy the world.

Source: Demian

21. This ancient world will eventually come to an end. Soon, machines will defeat hands, money will defeat morality, and rational economy will defeat pastoral joy. No one knows who is right and who is wrong. . Admirers of ancient civilizations like me will be sentimental about this, but no one can disagree with us, whatever our appeals may be. We understand that our thoughts, whether rational or emotional, have nothing to do with progress or romance, moving forward or falling behind, but with how things appear or what they actually are. We understand that what we hate is not railways and cars, money and reason, but the forgetfulness of God and the shallowness of the soul. We understand better that real life, real truth, transcends opposing concepts such as money and faith, machinery and mind, reason and piety. Source: The Song of Ticino

22. When a person pursues something, he will only see what he is pursuing. The reason why he discovers nothing and gains nothing is because he only focuses on what he is looking for, because he is obsessed with his goal. Pursuing means having a goal, while seeking means freedom, tolerance, and abandoning all goals. Source: Siddhartha

23. What we really hate is not money itself, but people’s desire for money. Source: The Song of Ticino

24. After the trunk of a tree is cut off, new shoots will sprout next to the roots. Similarly, after suffering from disease and being destroyed, the human soul often returns to spring. Such a budding period and a childhood full of reverie, as if it could find new hope there and reconnect the torn lifeline. Although the branches sprouting from the roots are lush and succulent and grow rapidly, this life is just an appearance and it will never grow into a real tree again. Source: Under the Wheel

25. Of course, people can think without imagining. Thinking has nothing to do with imagination. Think not with imagination, but with concepts and formulas. Exactly where the movement of the image ceases, the philosophical reflections begin. Source: Narcissus and Goldmund

26. Due to the silence at the moment and the strange and painful thoughts at the moment, Mr. Gibbenrath was hesitantly and at a loss heading towards his accustomed place. Life is going downhill. Source: Under the Wheel

27. "If a plant is broken or withered," he wrote to his sister Adler in the same month, "then it will quickly produce seeds, because This is the meaning of its existence. Therefore, when the sensitivity of life is damaged, I will withdraw and return to work, thinking and art, because that is the purpose of my life and existence. "Source: The Song of Ticino<. /p>

28. If you had not gone out into the world, but had become a thinker, you would have been miserable. Because you will become an occultist. An occultist, to put it simply and crudely, is a thinker who has not gotten rid of his imagination, that is to say, he is not a thinker at all. They are secret artists, poets who do not recite poetry, writers who do not write, and musicians who do not compose music. There are extremely talented and noble people among them, but without exception, they are all unfortunate people. You would have become like this. Thank God, you did not do this, but became an artist, mastered the world of images, became its creator and master, and did not fall into the dilemma of being useless as a thinker. Source: Narcissus and Goldmund

29. Anyone who tries his best to move toward the center, who strives toward real existence and perfection, will always appear calmer than an enthusiastic person. Much more, because people can't always see their searing flames. Source: Glass Bead Game

30. Whenever there is a conflict between an individual and a group, we can use this as a touchstone to examine whether his personality is outstanding. We do not agree with the kind of traitors who destroy order driven by desire and greed. We only miss those dedicated people who are truly tragic figures. Source: Glass Bead Game