What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Now we wake up with our memory and fix our gazes on that which was; whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For believe me, the more one is, the richer is all that one experiences. And whoever wants to have a deep love… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Long you must suffer, knowing not what, until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you. Then… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Believe in a love that is preserved for you like a heritage, and trust that in this love there is a strength… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The claims which the difficult work of love lays upon our development are more than life-sized, and as beginners we are not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If your love for […] wants to do something now, then its work and task is this: to catch up with what… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Songs of longing! And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometimes loudly and sometimes secretly so that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Put out my eyes, and I can see you still; slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet; and without… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Live for a while in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them. This… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“that is where young people so often and so grievously go wrong: that they (whose nature it is to have no patience)… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Ah, only plunged toward you does my face cease being on display, grows into you and twines on darkly, endlessly, into your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient)… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share