Demian Quotes:

You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

- Hermann Hesse

source: "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

topic: Harmony, Ifs, Demian

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Demian ch. 6 (1919)

topic: Spiritual, Hate, Hatred, Hate Him, Spiritual Wisdom

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

- Hermann Hesse

source: "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 166, 1919.

topic: Fighting, Names, Eggs, Demian

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Angel, Winning, Play, Demian

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Stars, Book, Teaching, Demian

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

- Hermann Hesse

source: "Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse".

topic: Reality, Demian, Unreal World

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

- Hermann Hesse

source: "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 183, 1919.

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Differences, Demian

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Self, Difficult, Accord, Demian

You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Dream, Forever, Lasts, Demian

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Believe, I Believe, Demian

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

- Hermann Hesse

source: "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth". Book by Hermann Hesse , p. 123, 1919.

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Character, Sinister, Demian

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Inspirational, Men, Unique, Demian, Redeemer

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Teacher, Truth, Father, Inner Voice, Demian

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

topic: Men, World, Today, Demian, Distasteful

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Self, Excellence, Doe, Demian

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Work, Destiny, Men, Synchronicity, Demian

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

topic: Men, Long, Important, Demian

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

topic: Harmony, Demian

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

topic: Independent, Thinking, Law, Demian

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Life, Strength, Demand, Demian

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Men, Matter, Way, Demian

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Lying, People, Guy, Demian

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

- Hermann Hesse

source: "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1919.

topic: Able, Way, Certain, Demian

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Firsts, Bitter, Birth, Demian

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

topic: Teacher, Thinking, Half, Demian

As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Thinking, Peers, Stories, Demian

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Giving, Acting, Actors, Demian, Busboys

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

topic: Each Day, World, Remains, Demian

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Angel, Two, Devil, Demian

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Long, Intense, Enough, Demian

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Careers, Firsts, Grew Up, Demian

I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Brother, Play, Lucky, Demian

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Music, Thinking, Moral, Moralizing, Demian

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Art, Stupid, Thinking, Demian

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Actors, Lines, Speak, Demian

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Brother, Two, Parent, Demian, Two Brothers

I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Girlfriend, New York, Home, Ex Girlfriend, Julia

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Children, Believe, Men, Demian

There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

- Demian Bichir

source: "Demian Bichir Talks A BETTER LIFE, Chris Weitz, Auditioning for TWILIGHT: NEW MOON, and More at SBIFF". Interview, collider.com. February 5, 2012.

topic: Beautiful, Acting, Separation, Demian

There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

- Demian Bichir

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Moving, Names, Actors, Demian

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Men, Dying, Saws, Demian

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

- Demian Bichir

source: "The Esquire Nominating Academy Presents: Demián Bichir" by Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. January 8, 2013.

topic: Powerful, Epic, Issues, Demian

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

- Demian Bichir

source: "Demian Bichir Talks A BETTER LIFE, Chris Weitz, Auditioning for TWILIGHT: NEW MOON, and More at SBIFF". Interview, collider.com. February 5, 2012.

topic: Character, Trying, Littles, Demian

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

- Demian Bichir

topic: Thinking, Want, Oscars, Best Film, Demian

The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Real, Secret, Needs, Avocados, Demian

Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor.

- Demian Bichir

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Thinking, Demian