51 Steppenwolf Quotes

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Famous Steppenwolf Quotes

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

The thoroughbred wanderer — Sir Richard Francis Burton

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it. — Doug Horton

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope, out of control. — Trey Anastasio

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. — Ian Anderson

He who cannot howl will not find his pack. — Charles Simic

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone. — Robert Hunter

Black beauty - he's a dark horse. - Tim Vine

Black beauty - he's a dark horse. — Tim Vine

He who runs with wolves will learn to howl. — Mexican Proverbs

Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris? — Frank Zappa

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! — David Lynch

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise. — Bob Seger

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon — Stephenie Meyer

No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits. — Cub Koda

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing. — Neil Young

Short Steppenwolf Quotes

  • madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom — Hermann Hesse
  • What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. — Hermann Hesse
  • I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there. — Gary Sinise
  • Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. — Hermann Hesse
  • I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan. — George Thorogood
  • You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live. — Hermann Hesse
  • A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes. — Hermann Hesse
  • What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life — Hermann Hesse
  • But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. — Hermann Hesse
  • How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse

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More Steppenwolf Quotes

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right. — Hermann Hesse

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts. — Hermann Hesse

All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand. — Hermann Hesse

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. — Hermann Hesse

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands. — Hermann Hesse

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve. — Hermann Hesse

After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work. — Tracy Letts

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life. — Hermann Hesse

One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too. — Hermann Hesse

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days. — Douglas Wood

I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here. — Andre Holland

It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles. — Roger Ebert

There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. — Hermann Hesse

Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown. — Hermann Hesse

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