Hermann Hesse Quotes

History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.

I think life takes circles sometimes.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that's a cliche.

Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.

Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.