Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
