Hermann Hesse Wolf Quotations

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom