It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“which so incorruptibly reduced a reality to its color content that it resumed a new existence in a beyond of color, without… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“O trees of life, O when are you wintering? We are not unified. We have no instincts like those of migratory birds.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I… — 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
“of all the disfigured and decaying Things, which, after all, are essentially nothing more than accidental remains from another time and from… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You see, I want a lot. Maybe I want it all: the darkness of each endless fall, the shimmering light of each… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“She was in herself, like a woman near term, and did not think of the man, going on ahead, or the path,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing , it must become criticism. Ask… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“My God, I thought with sudden vehemence, so you really are. There are proofs of your existence. I have forgotten them all… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against… — 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
