“Almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Sex is difficult; yes. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But they are difficult things with which we have been charged; almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“but those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy;… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult,… — 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
Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. — 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
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly… — 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
