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….

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids..

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to att….

And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer..

All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a pe….

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which a….

You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing That is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks As it divides and rejoins behind you. ….

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other..

Think... of the world you carry within you..

It 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 defini….

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatne….

Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not res….

And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach co….

Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely..

Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even f….

Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along th….

As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere..

Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad.

Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, t….

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name..

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children..