Duino-elegies Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“I thought my life was meaningless before. If I had known my rebirth would be so dragging, I would have stayed dead the first…

— Christina L. Barr

“At the time of life, a human being rises and falls.”

— Radostin Chernev

“Heroism isn't rising up after a fall. Heroism is preventing self from falling in the first place!”

— Muhammed R. El Nabelsy

“The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.”

— Joseph Campbell

“a hero was only a hero if the person being saved wasn’t strong enough to save themselves.”

— Laury Falter

“I used to think this heroic: my sturdy, stable dad, capable of anything. But now I realize that he's just drawn to dying, helpless…

— Kate Ellison

“...in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.”

— Hermann Broch

“He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff,…

— Helene Wecker

“True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“In the struggle to save myself, I’d been reborn.”

— Matthew Mather

“I wondered then: what was it that started a person sinking? Was that long fall in him (or her) from the start, in us…

— James Sallis

“He thinks one’s life can be distilled to a narrative that has a beginning and an end. He knows nothing about the kind of…

— Kristin Hannah