The river is everywhere.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.