"Demian" Quotes

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished the existence of the individual; the relationship between one human being and another has also been cramped by it, as though it had been lifted out of the riverbed of endless possibilities and set down in a fallow spot on the bank, to which nothing ever happens.

Someday I would like to sing well. I feel as if I had something inside me that needs to come out.

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

We have never been happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Two souls are sometimes created together and, in love, unknowingly searching for each other.

Sometimes people need a little chaos in their lives to recognize happiness when it arrives.

I simply withdrew inward, into myself. And there I stayed. But many times I found it difficult to differentiate exactly between what all these words meant.

Listen to your heart! Listen to your heart even if it hurts!