Quotes About Rilke Death

#1. Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. Because - dig it - when it comes to death, what can you do but laugh?

Stephen King

#3. Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,
but longing to degrade not even death;
we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,
to feel its hands about us like a friend's.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#5. Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by the renunciation of life; only the ripe fruit of the here and now that has been seized and bitten will spread its indescribable taste in us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

Pete Hamill

#8. Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Stephen Lang

#9. Being dead filled her beyond fulfillment. Like a fruit
suffused with its own mystery and sweetness,
she was filled with her vast death, which was so new,
she could not understand that it had happened.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love. Death stands before eternity and says YES.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#12. Quite pure, quite free of future planning, I mounted
the tangled funeral pyre built for my suffering,
so sure of nothing more to buy for future needs,
while in my heart the stored reserves kept silent.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#14. The free animal
has its dying always behind it
and God in front of it, and its way
is the eternal way, as the spring flowing.
Never, not for a moment, do we have
pure space before us, where the flowers
endlessly open.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#15. I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

Gail Devers

#16. She was in herself, like a woman near term,
and did not think of the man, going on ahead,
or the path, climbing upwards towards life.
She was in herself. And her being-dead
filled her with abundance.
As a fruit with sweetness and darkness,
so she was full with her vast death.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#17. Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

Christopher

#18. No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science ignores them. But to claim they are a fabrication and do not exist because science ignores them is a mistake. Because ghosts are real.

Natsuhiko Kyogoku

#19. O Lord, give each person his own personal death. / A thing that moves out of the same life he lived, / In which he had love, and intelligence, and trouble.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#20. Your business has to work when it's small in order to survive to the point where it gets big.

Seth Godin

#21. There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

Mark McMorris

#22. I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn between bitterness and hope

Adrienne Rich

#23. Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride.

Cecil Castellucci

#24. Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#25. Let us see to it that ponderers, thinkers, feelers survive in our midst.

Robert Walser

#26. I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

Mary-Louise Parker

#27. It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.

Rainer Maria Rilke