The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don’t know what… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you… — 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
“Do not watch yourself too closely. Do not draw over-rapid conclusions from what is happening to you. Simply let it happen. Otherwise… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has… — 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
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
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