Best quotes by Hermann Hesse on Happiness

Checkout quotes by Hermann Hesse on Happiness

  • Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
    - Hermann Hesse
  • This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
    - Hermann Hesse
  • To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
    - Hermann Hesse
  • For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
    - Hermann Hesse
  • It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
    - Hermann Hesse
  • Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
    - Hermann Hesse