Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• To work is to live without dying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Work, Dying

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

• Thus we live, forever taking leave.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spiritual, Forever, Dying

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1975). “University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures”

• 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

  Dying, Accomplish, Unreal

  Duino Elegies no. 4 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

• 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

  Death, Dying, Storm

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

• The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Loneliness, Fall

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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