Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Sadness

Quotes about: Sadness

• Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Friendship, Emo, Sadness

• 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, Joy, Feelings

• You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Sadness, Important

• It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Emotion, Moments

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

• The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Order, Break Out

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

• The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Order, Noise

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

• If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Joy, Littles

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

• 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

  Faith, Fear, Moving

• You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Gone, Passing

• Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Order, People

• The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Fate, Patient

  Letters to a Young Poet: Letter Eight (12 August 1904), 1934.

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