Hermann Hesse Quotes and its meanings

Hermann Hesse has written on many topics. Some of the topics he has discussed most are as follows;

Alone Courage Death Faith Good Happiness History Home Knowledge Learning Nature Relationship Smile Strength Time Truth Wisdom

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Hermann Hesse Quotes Index

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What does Hermann Hesse write about?

Hermann Hesse has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about alone, courage, death, faith, good, happiness, history, home, knowledge, learning, nature, relationship, smile, strength, time, truth & wisdom. People always share Alone quotes, Courage quotes, death, faith, good, happiness, history, home, knowledge & learning from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Hermann Hesse?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Hermann Hesse.

  • As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
  • People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
  • The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
  • To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
  • I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
  • Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.
  • To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
  • Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
  • One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
  • Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.