Peter Camenzind
Hermann Hesse
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.”
“The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.”
“That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!”
“I began to sense that I would be a stranger in society for the rest of my life, and the desire was born in me to lead my life outside this society.”
“I wanted … people to listen to the pulse of nature, to partake of the wholeness of life and not forget, under the pressure of their petty destinies, that we are not gods and have not created ourselves but are the children of the earth, part of the cosmos.”
“how easy human frailties could thrive under the cover of idealism”
“everything I had so far experienced was mere chance […] my life still lacked a deep individual meaning of its own”
“It seems to have been my bad luck always to receive more than I could return, from life and friends.”
“the old buzzard told me his life's story. I only remember that it was interesting and unusual; I've forgotten all the details.”
“You are a poet, not because you write stories, but because you understand and love nature. It doesn't matter to most people that the wind sings in the trees or a mountain shimmers in the sunlight. But you find life in all this, a life you can partake of.”
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Book Keywords:
suffering, life, maturity, depression, melancholy
