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Hermann Hesse

(1877 – 1962) A German-Swiss poet, essayist, novelist, short story author and painter. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi), all of which explore an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality.

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

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

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

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

Love does not entreat; or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.