Hermann Hesse Quotes

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

When you love a woman don't be bothered about what others have said about love, because that is going to be an interference. You love a woman, the love is there, forget all that you have learned about love. Forget all Kinseys, forget all Masters and Johnsons, forget all Freuds and Jungs. Please don't become a language professor. Just love the woman and let love be there, and let love lead you and guide you into its innermost secrets, into its mysteries. Then you will be able to know what love is.

Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly

I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

I love you. I honestly love you.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

Art is much, but love is more.

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.

I do want love. Genuine love.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

There's nothing like real love. Nothing.

Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

Love is the reason for it all.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.