"Siddhartha" Quotes

I have never seen the water of the Ganges as beautiful as today, never have I seen it so clear, so strong, so worth looking at.

I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

I can think, I can wait, I can fast.

The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it.

I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary vision, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

Your soul is the whole world.

I have never heard anything more beautiful than this voice, and it now says no more than this, and it is still the most beautiful.

The river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere, and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

I can love a stone, Govinda, and a tree, or a piece of bark. These are things, and things can be loved.