Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• 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

• Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Arrows, Sorrow, Abiding

• We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Winter, Years, Sorrow

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

• Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Memories, Humble

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