Hermann Hesse Quotes


So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?


Citations

Hesse, Hermann. Steppenwolf. Translated by Basil Creighton, Bantam Books, 1968, p. 133.

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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
  • Born: July 2, 1877
  • Died: August 9, 1962
  • Nationality: German, Swiss
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Author, Essayist, Poet, Painter

Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.