Hermann Hesse Quotes

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.

As long as one suffers one lives.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too."

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.

Love is the reason you were born.

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.