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Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this question witha strong and simple ‘I must’ then build your lfie according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “The longer i live, the more urgent it seems to me to endure and transcribe the whole dictation of existence up to its end, for it might just be the case that only the very last sentence contains that small and possibly inconspicuous word through which everything we had struggled to learn and everything we had failed to understand will be transformed into magnificent sense.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out; like sicknesses that are superficially and foolishly treated they simply withdraw and after a little pause break out again the more dreadfully; and accumulate within one and are life, are unlived, spurned, lost life, of which one may die.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Wanting to change, to improve, a person’s situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “It is still this death which continues inside of me, which works in me, which transforms my heart, which deepens the red of my blood, which bears down heavily on the life that had been ours so that this death becomes a bittersweet drop coursing through my veins and permeating everything, and which ought to be mine forever.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Our own heart always exceeds us.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Works of art are born of those who confront danger, who go to the limit of an experience, to a point beyond which no human can go. The farther one ventures, the more distinctive, the more personal, the more unique life becomes.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “The main thing was to be living. That was the main thing.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live with them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we’ve ripened none within us.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin’s bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Things are not all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable. occur in a space that no word has ever penetrated.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Only in the realm of Praising should Lament walk, the naiad of the wept-for fountain, watching over the stream of our complaint, to keep it clear upon the very stone that bears the arch of triumph and the altar. –.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “The inner, what is it: if not intensified sky hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Life – a sexually transmitted terminal condition.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Was soll ich mit meinem Munde? Mit meiner Nacht? Mit meinem Tag? Ich habe keine Geliebte, kein Haus, keine Stelle auf der ich lebe.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “The world of sexuality it finds is not entirely mature and pure, it is not human enough, only virile, rut, intoxication, restlessness, and weighed down by the old prejudices and arrogance with which men have disfigured and overburdened love.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Doch wie ich mich auch in mich selber neige: Mein Gott ist dunkel und wie ein Gewebe von hundert Wurzeln, welche schweigsam trinken.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Don’t you see how everything that happens is always a beginning again, and could it not be His beginning, given that beginnings are in themselves always so beautiful?”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity. In this manner of its origin lies its true estimate: there is no other. Therefore, my dear Sir, I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths whence your life wells forth; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Ist dir Trinken bitter, werde Wein.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Everything must be carried to term before it is born. To let every impression and the germ of every feeling come to completion inside, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, in what is unattainable to one’s own intellect, and to wait with deep humility and patience for the hour when a new clarity is delivered.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “So you mustn’t be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety – like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “And if I have anything else to say to you it is this: do not think that the person who is trying to console you lives effortlessly among the simple, quiet words that sometimes make you feel better. His life is full of troubles and sadness and falls far short of them. But if it were any different he could never have found the words that he did.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Never forget to make a wish, Malte. You should never give up wishing. I believe there is no such thing as fulfillment, but there are wishes, and they go on lasting, your whole lifetime, so that you couldn’t wait long enough for them to be fulfilled even if you wanted to.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively from his own existence.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “The natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly and with time to other insights... Everything is a gestation and then bringing forth.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Irony: Don’t let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “I would describe myself like a landscape I’ve studied at length, in detail; like a word I’m coming to understand; like a pitcher I pour from at mealtime; like my mother’s face; like a ship that carried me when the waters raged.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Think, dear Sir, of the world that you carry inside you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own – only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it, and not lose too much time or too much courage in clarifying your attitude toward people.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.”
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