Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes (20 quotations)
1. At the bottom 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. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world. - Rainer Maria Rilke
2. Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. - Rainer Maria Rilke
3. 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. - Rainer Maria Rilke
4. Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. - Rainer Maria Rilke
5. For one human being to love another human being: That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task - Rainer Maria Rilke
6. 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 all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke
7. I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. - Rainer Maria Rilke
8. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. - Rainer Maria Rilke
9. It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. - Rainer Maria Rilke
10. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. - Rainer Maria Rilke
11. More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. - Rainer Maria Rilke
12. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. - Rainer Maria Rilke
13. One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. - Rainer Maria Rilke
14. Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. - Rainer Maria Rilke
15. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. - Rainer Maria Rilke
16. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Rainer Maria Rilke
17. There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. - Rainer Maria Rilke
18. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. - Rainer Maria Rilke
19. When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. - Rainer Maria Rilke
20. Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. - Rainer Maria Rilke
2. Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. - Rainer Maria Rilke
3. 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. - Rainer Maria Rilke
4. Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. - Rainer Maria Rilke
5. For one human being to love another human being: That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task - Rainer Maria Rilke
6. 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 all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke
7. I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. - Rainer Maria Rilke
8. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. - Rainer Maria Rilke
9. It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. - Rainer Maria Rilke
10. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. - Rainer Maria Rilke
11. More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. - Rainer Maria Rilke
12. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. - Rainer Maria Rilke
13. One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. - Rainer Maria Rilke
14. Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. - Rainer Maria Rilke
15. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. - Rainer Maria Rilke
16. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Rainer Maria Rilke
17. There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. - Rainer Maria Rilke
18. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. - Rainer Maria Rilke
19. When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. - Rainer Maria Rilke
20. Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. - Rainer Maria Rilke
