Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes (76 Quotes)

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

There is no center to sustain my life.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that err less. Therefore, dear sir, love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you. For those who are near you are far, you say, and that shows it is beginning to grow wide about you. And when what is near you is far, then your distance is already among the stars and very large rejoice in your growth, in which you naturally can take no one with you, and be kind to those who remain behind, and be sure and calm before them and do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with your confidence or joy, which they could not understand. Seek yourself some sort of simple and loyal community with them, which need not necessarily change as you yourself become different and again different love in them life in an unfamiliar form and be considerate of aging people, who fear that being-alone in which you trust.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it blame yourself admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

That is the principle thing - not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

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

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

With youths she walks in silence.

The summer was too long.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

In the beginning life was good to me;
it held me warm and gave me courage.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Why is it that I am always neighbor
to those lost ones who are forced to sing
and to say: Life is infinitely heavier
than the heaviness of all things.