“Riches do not so much exhilarate us with their possession, as they torment us with their loss.”
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
“Continue to believe that with your feeling and with
your work you take part in what is greatest. The more strongly you cultivate this belief inside of you, the more it will give rise to reality and world.”
― The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
your work you take part in what is greatest. The more strongly you cultivate this belief inside of you, the more it will give rise to reality and world.”
― The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
“There is no more wretched prison than the fear of hurting a person who loves you.”
― Rilke on Love
― Rilke on Love
“This afternoon I couldn't get out of bed, not because I was too tired but because I was too "heavy" - again and again that word, it's the only one that fits me, do you understand this at all? It's something like the “heaviness” of a ship which has lost its rudder and which says to the waves: "I'm too heavy for myself and for you too light".”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Her lips pale, her face red from the cold, Dorothea said nothing. She ate a kind of cake she was fond of. She was still beautiful; nevertheless her face kept dissolving in that light, dissolving in the grey of the sky.”
― Blue of Noon
― Blue of Noon
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