Demian Hermann Hesse Quotes

#1. Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Michael Morpurgo

#2. I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too.

Isabel Allende

#3. I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

Johnny Cash

#4. Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Davy Crockett

#5. Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast.

Ken Follett

#6. An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

Hermann Hesse

#7. We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at the same door. - from the preface to 'Demian

Hermann Hesse

#8. Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

Stephen Graham Jones

#9. Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won.

Hermann Hesse

#10. At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

Hermann Hesse

#11. If people don't like you, it doesn't matter how much uniqueness, nerve or talent you have!

Manila Luzon

#12. For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

Hermann Hesse

#13. Write like there is no tomorrow so that others may read about today.

Jen Selinsky

#14. In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

Gustav Mahler

#15. There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.

James St. James

#16. Just because you work, doesn't mean you're working on the right thing.

Richie Norton

#17. You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

Clement Attlee