All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
Hermann HesseBut it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.
Hermann HesseA wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.
Hermann HesseAll the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
Hermann Hesse