Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.
Rainer Maria RilkeYour life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.
Rainer Maria RilkeIt is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.
Rainer Maria RilkeWho is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.
Rainer Maria Rilke