Hermann Hesse Quotes

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such that death seems unforgivable. We are temporary organs of the race, cells in the body of life; we die and drop away that life may remain young and strong. If we were to live forever, growth would be stifled, and youth would find no room on earth. Death, like style, is the removal of rubbish, the circumcision of the superfluous. In the midst of death life renews itself immortally.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

Life is a plant that grows out of death.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

To live is to die.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.