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
You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action… — 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
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also… — 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