Hermann Hesse Love Quotations

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing el

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

Happiness is love, nothing else.

Love is stronger than violence.

She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.