Khareen’s Reviews > Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910 > Status Update

Why people who love each other part before it is necessary? — well: perhaps because at any moment this necessity may step forth and demand it.

For it remains difficult, in any case, whether one determines to say much or little, and is an immeasurable responsibility.

Life takes pride in not appearing uncomplicated.

If I prayed for you, I would pray for you not to break through it, this solitude, not now, not imapatiently, not at any price.

Our hearts lie deep, but if we are not pressed down into them, we never go all the way to the bottom.

All the strength we give away comes back over us again, experienced and transformed.

Be of good courage, all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...

I feel... as if we had gone together through endless developments, through worlds, and worlds through us.

By what road does one become a worthy initiate?

My heart was oppressed and out of sorts without my knowing the reason at first.