Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Quote by Hermann Hesse
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Hermann Hesse Quotes
- Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
- There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
- It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
- Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
- Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
- All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
- Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.
- In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
- Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
- Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
- Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
- At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.
- You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
- Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
- I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.