19 beautiful quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and cour...
“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 yo...
“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live...
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of ...
“You darkness, that I come from,I love you more than all the firesthat fence in the world,for the fire makesa circle of ...
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a stre...
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the ...
“If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.”
“It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribab...
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it ser...
“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if ...
“So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow...
“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; ...
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call fort...
“Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy fo...
“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpected...
