Hermann Hesse Time Quotations

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.