"Steppenwolf" Quotes

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

No man stays young, only one form of him is young.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils.

You are afraid of yourself, that is why you talk so much and so loudly about others.

Pablo is neither a wolf of the Steppes, nor a wanderer: he comes from the bourgeois class, has personality and individuality, and therefore follows his inner choice and vocation for any material or spiritual work of art.

Telling one another fairy tales and stories was not childish, it was just as necessary as the food they had to eat, and also a celebration of the true idea of life, a symbol of pure humanity.

The Steppenwolf stands on the side of life and confronts its overwhelming meaning.