Hermann Hesse Quotes

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Men, today we die a little.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

No sacrifice is lost for a great ideal!

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !