Hermann Karl Hesse Tapestries

Hermann Hesse quote: “There's no reality except the one contained within us.”

Hermann Hesse quote: Your soul is the whole world.

Hermann Hesse quote: Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse quote: Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Hermann Hesse quote: Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

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

Hermann Hesse quote: “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

Hermann Hesse quote on love: Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse quote: Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Hermann Hesse quote: “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”

Hermann Hesse quote: Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Hermann Hesse quote: I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse quote: "When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults."