I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call… — 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
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And this is why it is so important to be lonely and attentive when one is sad: because the apparently uneventful and… — 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
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this… — 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
My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it… — 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
“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you intend, O my God, to relinquish everything and love them. Why else do I find it so hard not to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“That's my window. This minute So gently did I alight From sleep--was still floating in it. Where has my life its limit… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The longer i live, the more urgent it seems to me to endure and transcribe the whole dictation of existence up to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For believe me, the more one is, the richer is all that one experiences. And whoever wants to have a deep love… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath- no: as one presses it against a wound out of which the whole of life,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so… — 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
