في الشمس العتيقة Quotes

“It was the first time they had come to blows; but their cowardice outweighed even their anger, and no serious damage resulted.”
― Hermann Hesse, In the old Sun

“human life, even upon a small stage, always offers an amusing drama and one well worth consideration.”
― Hermann Hesse, In the old Sun

“they experienced the greater part of their destinies and satisfactions, their joys and sorrows, more in imagination than in tangible reality.”
― Hermann Hesse, In the old Sun

“and the town was rid of one more pensioner, which no one regretted.”
― Hermann Hesse, In the old Sun

“But there was a real power behind it all; and the uncomprehending desire for death was certainly the first great and, in the higher sense, rational movement which this small soul had known for years.”
― Hermann Hesse, In the old Sun

“The realization of the infinite and the eternal, the longing for the inexpressible, innate in this soul as in others but neglected and forgotten through a whole lifetime, found now, when it swelled up, no outlet, and attempted to express itself in grimaces, gestures, and tones of the strangest kind, absurdly and laughably enough.”
― Hermann Hesse, In the old Sun

“when a great talker grows silent, it means that he is well on the road toward the churchyard.”
― Hermann Hesse, In the old Sun