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  • How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

    "Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays".
  • As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

    Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
  • Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

    Real   Two   Suffering  
    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan
  • It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

    Drama   School   Class  
    Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.542, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

    Stars   Years   Space  
    Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
  • What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

    Demian ch. 6 (1919)
  • The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.

    Fire   Self   Mind  
    Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
  • All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.

    Suicide   Fall   Mean  
    Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam
  • But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.112, Macmillan
  • I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

    Fans   Bigs   Brown  
  • madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan
  • Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

    Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
  • There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.

  • ...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

    Mean   Soul   Generations  
    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan
  • The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

    Nature   Power   Men  
    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan
  • I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

    Home   Joy   World  
    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan
  • What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan
  • Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

    Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.106, Om Books International
  • For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan
  • What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

    Steppenwolf pt. 1 (1927)
  • A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan
  • Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.

    Witty   Men   Thinking  
    "Steppenwolf". Book by Hermann Hesse, pp. 15-16, 1927.
  • I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

  • To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

    Faith   Mean   Order  
    Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan
  • The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

    Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam
  • I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here.

    Play   Done   Moonlight  
    Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. November 4, 2016.
  • You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.216, Macmillan
  • He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
  • Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.

    Wise   Mother   Mean  
    Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam
  • Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

    Long   Moments   Eternity  
    Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
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