“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
Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Long you must suffer, knowing not what, until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you. Then… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In a case like this, the thing is (in my own opinion) to draw back upon oneself, and not to strive after… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now… — 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