Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotes

• “But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some...”
• “You darkness, that I come from,I love you more than all the firesthat fence in the world,for the fire makesa circle of l...”
• “Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you...”
• “It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simp...”
• “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful liv...”
• “She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who driv...”
• “Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; c...”
• “A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be /...”
• “This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”
• “There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”
• “It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)”
• “That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
• “I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
• “Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
• “Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final”
• “Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
• “No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”
• “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
• “Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
• “The only journey is the one within.”