If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as… — 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
Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are… — 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
It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell… — 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
If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and… — 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
My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened… — 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
