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Gertrude QUOTES

Gertrude QUOTES

1 " Pronto me di cuenta de que estas enseñanzas podían ser un consuelo sólo para los que las aceptaran literalmente y que creyeran ser la verdad. Si fueran, como para mí, en parte bella literatura, parte símbolos intrincados; un intento de explicación mitológica del mundo, uno podría instruirse y apreciarlas, pero uno no aprendería la forma de vivir y sacar fuerza de ellas. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

2 " I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness … , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference … that was only … pierced when creative desire enveloped me like ether. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

3 " On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found … a swarm of … small, blue butterflies drinking the water. … I only went that way on sunny days and each time the dense, blue swarm was there, and each time it was a holiday. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

4 " I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

5 " A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly ... ; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to the benumbed. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

6 " To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

7 " desires are not killed by fulfilling them "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

8 " That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

9 " Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

10 " Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

11 " It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier years of my life left me, was alien and lost to me. I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

12 " Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

13 " If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

14 " I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

15 " In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

16 " People like best what is hard for them to obtain. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

17 " Era linistitor sa stiu ca seara nu voi mai trai. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

18 " I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love; then there were the women who were drawn to him, suffering insults and beatings, finally rejected and yet still clinging to him, degraded by jealousy and despised love, but still remaining faithful. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

19 " Hasta la fecha, jamás he perdido la sensación de las contradicciones que hay detrás de todo y el conocimiento. Mi existencia ha sido miserable y complicada, y sin embargo, para otros y en ocasiones incluso para mí, parece haber sido maravillosa. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude

20 " If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength. "

― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude