Siddhartha Quotes

Everyone has experienced that feeling of something reoccurring or something happening again that has already happened in the past. This feeling of life running in cycles is extremely common in Siddhartha. A theme in Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is life runs in cycles because of the reoccurrence of Kamala in Siddhartha’s life, Siddhartha experiencing the same feeling of nothingness that he felt when he was a child and now as an old man, and Siddhartha realizing that he is enduring the same sadness as his father once experienced. The reoccurrence of Kamala in Siddhartha’s life and Siddhartha meeting her again shows a cycle. Hermann Hesse states, “Then he saw Kamala, whom he recognized immediately, although she lay unconscious in the ferryman’s arms” (Hesse 111). Hesse also states, “I recognized you immediately, Kamala, my dear” (Hesse 112). The cycle in this quote is the reoccurrence and meeting again of Kamala in Siddhartha’s life. These quotes show that life runs in cycles because Siddhartha had already met Kamala in

The author says, “... as I once stood as a small child. Nothing is mine, I know nothing. How strange it is! Now that I am no longer young, when my hair is growing gray, when strength begins to diminish, now I am beginning again like a child” (Hesse 95). The cycle in this quote is that Siddhartha is experiencing what he felt when he was a child and now when he is an old man. This quote shows the cycle because he is feeling like his life is repeating itself due to the fact that he had already experienced this feeling but very long ago when he was still a child. Siddhartha has already endured this nothingness and now it is coming back to him and reoccurring to him at a much older age. This feeling of nothingness that Siddhartha has already experienced but is experiencing once more shows a