Steppenwolf Quotes:

A great book by Herman Hess.  Which I need to reread again soon. 

"I calmly wonder, objective and fearless, whether it isn't time to follow the example of Adalbert Stifter and have an accident while shaving."

"A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life."

"I, the homeless Steppenwolf, the solitary, the hater of life's petty conventions."

"No, I did not regret the past. My regret was for the present day, for all the countless hours and days thatI have lost in mere passivity and that brought me nothing, not even the shocks of awakening."

"I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him."

"I found neither home nor company, nothing but a seat from which to view a stage where strange people played strange parts."

"Whitherd years lay between those days and now."

"Well, to each his lot, and none is light."

"Many artists are of his kind (the Steppenwolf). These persons all have two souls, two beings within them. There is God and the devil in them."

"All these men (the Steppenwolf), whatever their deeds and works may be, have no real life; that is to say, their lives are not their own and have no form."

"Their life consists of a perpetual tide, unhappy and torn with pain, terrible and meaningless, unless one is ready to see its meaning in just those rare experiences, acts, thoughts and works that shine out above the chaos of such a life."

"To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke."