Hermann Hesse Suffering Quotations

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured....

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

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

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.