Hermann Hesse

German-Swiss

About Hermann Hesse

German-Swiss poet, novelist and essayist who wrote Steppenwolf and Siddhartha and won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Everything you can imagine is real.
Hermann Hesse
The bird must break out of the egg. The egg must be broken.
Hermann Hesse
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
Hermann Hesse
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.
Hermann Hesse
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.
Hermann Hesse
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life.
Hermann Hesse