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
“And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Does time really exist, time the destroyer? When will it break down the castle into mere fragments? When will this heart which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy… — 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
“We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in it; we… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appeared and what streamed out before us was not the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I think of you at any time of the day and my worried thoughts accompany all your steps. The slightest breath on… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This is tha miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, tha more they possess. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I’m too alone in the world, yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I’m too small in the world, yet… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In their new personal development the girl and the woman will only be for a short time imitations of the good and… — 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
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Trust yourself and your instincts; even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“that Rome (if one does not yet know it) has an oppressingly sad effect for the first few days: through the lifeless… — 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
