Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a… — 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
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
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. — 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
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands… — 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
