Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

• Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Sleep, Over You

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition”, p.289, North Point Press

• Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.632, Modern Library

• It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You, be the Master; Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Struggle, Rocks

• How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Dark, Night

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé (2008). “Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

• Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Love Is, Remove

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.119, Vintage

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