Hermann Hesse Step Quotations

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.