Hermann Hesse Quotes

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.