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
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
weren’t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and… — 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
