Top 34 Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes

#1. Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #159299
#2. For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #209408
#3. Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #262111
#4. Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #320589
#5. And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #380318
#6. I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #433897
#7. But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #494188
#8. Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #497378
#9. Siddhartha considered his circumstances. Thinking did not come easily to him. He didn't really feel like it, but he forced himself.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #562097
#10. It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! (character of Siddhartha, speaking to the Buddha)

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #749526
#11. Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #784934
#12. Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #803905
#13. You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." "I will die.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #882137
#14. I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha. He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #956218
#15. Kamala did not try to find him. She was not surprised when she learned that Siddhartha had disappeared.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1021718
#16. Most 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 Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1059399
#17. Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1087122
#18. Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1133589
#19. Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the happiness and peace he had known without the boy.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1153070
#20. I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1155740
#21. They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1164227
#22. Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1237600
#23. It was this very thing, it seemed to him now, which had been his sickness before: that he was not able to love anybody or anything. Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1239389
#24. Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1315438
#25. You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1474829
#26. Out of this moment when the world melted away all around him, when he stood alone like a star in the sky, out of this moment of cold and despair, Siddhartha emerged, more himself than before, firmer in his resolve.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1572205
#27. He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1579827
#28. I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1624728
#29. Ephemeral, highly ephemeral is the world of formations; ephemeral, highly ephemeral are our clothes and hairstyles, and our hair and our bodies themselves.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1658226
#30. I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1667793
#31. The father touched Siddhartha's shoulder. 'You will go into the forest,' he said, 'and become a Samana. If you find bliss in the forest, come back and teach it to me. If you find disillusionment, come back, and we shall again offer sacrifices to the gods together. Now go..

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1702604
#32. I will learn from myself, be my own pupil; I will learn from myself the secret of Siddhartha.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1725037
#33. And the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1775467
#34. Kamaswami conducted his business with care and often with passion, but Siddhartha looked upon all of this as if it was a game, the rules of which he tried hard to learn precisely, but the contents of which did not touch his heart.

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Quotes #1820688

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top