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Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

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  • sreshta9has quoted6 years ago
    He wanted the self to die, to no longer be an “I”, to find peace with an empty heart. His goal was to stand open to the wonder of thoughts conceived in self-dissolution. When every shred of his self had been conquered and put to death, when every longing and every inclination of the heart had been silenced, then the Ultimate had to awaken, that which was innermost had to come into being, that which was nothing les
  • sreshta9has quoted5 years ago
    He turned to a skeleton and then to dust, and then he blew into the fields.
  • sreshta9has quoted6 years ago
    It was the self, the purpose and essence of which I sought to learn
  • sreshta9has quoted6 years ago
    Both the thoughts as well as the senses were pretty things, and the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them. Both had to be listened to, both had to be played with, both should be neither scorned nor overestimated; both secret voices of the innermost truth had to be clearly perceived
  • sreshta9has quoted6 years ago
    was the self from which I sought freedom and that I wanted to overcome.
  • sreshta9has quoted6 years ago
    salvation from suffering
  • sreshta9has quoted6 years ago
    Whether it may be good or bad, whether living according to it would be suffering or joy, may re
  • sreshta9has quoted6 years ago
    Opinions are insubstantial: they may be beautiful or ugly, smart or foolish; everyone can support them or discard them.
  • sreshta9has quoted6 years ago
    Suffering was life, the whole world was full of suffering, but salvation
  • sreshta9has quoted6 years ago
    one’s being, it’s a brief escape out of the agony of self-existence, it’s a momentary anesthetic against the pain and meaninglessness of life.
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