3 Quotes by Rainer Marie Rilke

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

It's possible I am pushing through solid rockin flintlike layers, as the ore lies, alone;I am such a long way in I see no way through, and no space: everything is close to my face, and everything close to my face is stone.

Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.