"AN OLD MAN named Chunglang, which means ‘Master Rock’, owned a small farm in the mountains."

"Zarathustra has gone a long way on the path of solitude. He has attended the school of suffering."

“What ought we to do ?” you ask me. You ask me time and time again, and yourselves as well. “Doing” — action — is so important to you..."

"Now Ziegler felt deeply horrified, for ever since he swallowed the magic pill, he had understood the language of animals."

"The fact that the student enjoyed his happiness only in a dream should not diminish it ..."

"Oh, how he yearned to feel the vibration between himself and everything in the world !"

"Old age is a stage in our lives, ... it has its own face, its own atmosphere and temperature, its own joys and needs."

"Stone on the path, you are stronger than me ! Tree in the meadow, you will outlast me, and perhaps so will you, little raspberry bush..."

[Essai] "Je souhaite que le poème de mes rêves procure l'impression que me fait Chopin." Hermann Hesse

[Quotations] "I believe that we are on earth for this purpose, for contemplating and searching and listening for lost remote sounds..."

[Essay] "While Hesse recognized that ideas of degeneration existed during this period, he warned the reader not to yield to despair..."

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers..."

Quelques extraits choisis des oeuvres d'Hermann Hesse, à propos de la solitude qui lui était si chère.