Hermann Hesse Quotes

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

Ecstasy is almost never discussed anymore, but leaving the earth is one way of attaining it. To exchange ecstasy for death is often the bargain.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

Everyone is either happy or dead.

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Death is the most blessed dream.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.