One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Hermann HesseThose who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
Hermann HesseEverything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.
Hermann HesseMost people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
Hermann HesseThe diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.
Hermann Hesse