Quotes by Hermann Hesse

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.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn''t part of ourselves doesn''t disturb us.

The truth is lived, not taught.