So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the d….

The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of t….

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value..

Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself..

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becomin….

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life..

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

I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea a….

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restles….

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins..

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 ….

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me..

There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a pe….

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children ….

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

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty..

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized..

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding..

You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." ….

Each man's life represents a road toward himself..

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them..