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All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.

Life, Dying, God, Spiritual Perspective, Existential Cycle, Divine Breath

All life is a breath exhaled by God All dying

All life is a breath exhaled by God All dying

All life is a breath exhaled by God All dying

Hermann Hesse’s Quotes On Topics

Sensory Observation | Self Love | Far | Personal Acceptance | Religious Transformation | Differences | Uns | Limits | Hassen | Waits | Complete | Existential Rebirth | Dangers | Intimate Balance | Winged | Social Critique | Humanity | Discontent | Beautiful | Desespoir | More

More Hermann Hesse Quotes

“Too much thinking was still not good for me.”

Thought, Overthinking, Balance, Mental Health, Simplicity, Clarity

“like listening to music, but only the kind you play, absolute music, the kind that makes you feel that someone is rattling at the doors if heaven and hell. I like music very much, I think, because it's so unconcerned with morality.”

Music, Heaven, Hell, Transcendent Experience, Artistic Appreciation, Moral Freedom

“Wissen kann man mitteilen, Weisheit aber nicht. Man kann sie finden, man kann sie leben, man kann von ihr getragen werden, man kann mit ihr Wunder tun, aber sagen und lehren kann man sie nicht.”

Wissen, Weisheit, Lehren, Knowledge Transmission, Wisdom Acquisition, Experiential Learning

“At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.”

Ideals, Sacrifice, Humanity, Introspection, Values, Life Purpose

“Forgive me, father, I am not certain what my own wishes are. I shall always take pleasure in study, how could it be otherwise? But I do not believe that my life will be limited to study. A man's wishes may not always determine his destiny, his mission; perhaps there are other predetermining factors.”

Wishes, Destiny, Study, Personal Uncertainty, Life’s Purpose, Fatalistic Perspective

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

Self, Distaste, Journey, Avoidance, Personal Growth, Introspection

“That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits.”

Leaves, Tree, Waits, Natural Cycles, Inner Resilience, Patient Endurance

“I pondered my friend’s words. I liked best what he had said about the fireballs since I myself often had the same feeling. The quiet spell of the colored flame, rising into the darkness and all too soon drowning in it, struck me as a symbol of all human pleasure, for the more beautiful it is, the less it satisfies us and the more quickly it is spent.”

Fireballs, Pleasure, Symbol, Fleeting Beauty, Existential Reflection, Emotional Insight

“Anyone knowing how to live for the moment, to live in the present as she did, treasuring every little wayside flower with loving care and deriving value from every playful little instant, had nothing to fear from life.”

Moment, Present, Fear, Mindful Living, Appreciation, Life Philosophy

“Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”

Mother, Love, Die, Psychological Foundation, Emotional Development, Existential Connection

“Into being a priest, into this arrogance, into this spirituality, his self had retreated, there it sat firmly and grew, while he thought he would kill it by fasting and penance.”

Spirituality, Self, Retreat, Irony, Growth, Personal Conflict

“I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable forces, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.”

Awake, Reason, Weaknesses, Self-awareness, Personal Growth, Psychological Insight

“We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.”

Journey, Struggle, Home, Longing, Personal Growth, Self Discovery

“Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?" "How come?”

Searching, Finding, Wisdom, Paradox, Self Discovery, Spiritual Journey

“But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.”

Pleasure, Permission, Fellow, Personal Autonomy, Social Critique, Individual Freedom

“I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need and long for is different. It is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and lust after death. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.”

Death, Desire, Happiness, Suffering, Longing, Existential Reflection

“Now, instead of being just attracted, I was really in love, and it seemed that a thin, grey veil had fallen from my eyes and that the world lay before me in its original divine light as it does to children, and as it appears to us in our dreams of Paradise.”

Love, Veil, Paradise, Emotional Awakening, Perceptual Shift, Spiritual Revelation

“He waited, listening with deep enjoyment, for the end of the sonata. In the still, twilit corridor it sounded so lonely and unworldly, and so brave and innocent also, both childlike and superior, as all good music must in the midst of the unredeemed muteness of the world.”

Music, Solitude, Innocence, Experience, Beauty, Listening

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

Story, Long, Back, Personal History, Narrative Reflection, Life Experience

“The world was beautiful, the world was particolored, strange and quizzical. Meaning and essence were not somewhere behind things, they were inside things, in everything.”

Beauty, Essence, Perception, Wonder, Inner Truth, Universal Meaning