Hermann Hesse Way Quotations

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.