Hermann Hesse Quotes

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Hermann Hesse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 2, 1877 - August 9, 1962

Topics

FireComfortLibertyPleasureInner

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Joe Orton

HumbleBloodMeek

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations.

Stephanie Sigman

PeopleExpectationsThinkTryAlways

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

Steven Spielberg

MotherMeSisterMysteryKindUp

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Tryon Edwards

StrengthHabitBrokenSteelChains

My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder.

Matt Bomer

LifeHappinessMeLife Is APersonal

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

Mike Ferguson

PositiveChangeYearsTechnological

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Michael Leunig

BusinessArtWorldMessyComing

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

Jay-Z

CultureMeGoHip-HopUnderstand

I auditioned for Lamorne Morris' part, Winston, on 'New Girl.' In the scene, the character was eating a mayonnaise sandwich. I thought, 'Nobody else is going to go into the audition eating, and this is how I'm gonna set myself apart.'

Jay Ellis

GirlCharacterMyselfEatingThought

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

Dee Dee Myers

FaithOpportunityPowerWorldLand

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

Clare Boothe Luce

WomenMyselfPlayMeatHeadWho

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare

HellEmptyDevilsHereHell Is

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