No one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone . . . [and] that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
Source: In Poor Man's College Quotations Collection, ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994.
-- Rainer M Rilke, (Dec 4 1875-1926), Austro-German poet; He became internationally famous with such works as Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.