Love is stronger than violence. - Hermann Hesse. View more images...

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense. - Hermann Hesse. View more images...

If I know what love is, it is because of you. - Hermann Hesse. View more images...

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. - Hermann Hesse. View more images...

Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object. - Hermann Hesse. View more images...

Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not - Hermann Hesse. View more images...