What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law. Rainer Maria Rilke powerful depth law 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 childhood growing purpose In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I’ll reply: Eden burns. Rainer Maria Rilke angel eye night What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? Rainer Maria Rilke live-your-life lovely pregnancy Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in. Rainer Maria Rilke filled animal world 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 difficulty offering mean There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. Rainer Maria Rilke humans persons faces I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers. Rainer Maria Rilke stranger use writing Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing. Rainer Maria Rilke house writing long Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. Rainer Maria Rilke enmity daily-life helping You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait. Rainer Maria Rilke physicians over-you waiting The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. Rainer Maria Rilke wedding-day good-marriage solitude It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort. Rainer Maria Rilke effort pieces names What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. Rainer Maria Rilke fate doe He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all. Rainer Maria Rilke one-thing law If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth. Rainer Maria Rilke everyday matter complaining Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Rainer Maria Rilke endure terror able No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within. Rainer Maria Rilke existentialism helping way Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope. Rainer Maria Rilke air house tree Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent. Rainer Maria Rilke sadness feelings joy
