Hermann Hesse Quotes

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

Life is one indivisible whole.

We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.

The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

Life is a manifestation of unity.

If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

Each thing implies the universe.

The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.