Quotes of Rainer Maria Rilke - somelinesforyou

“ That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ The only journey is the one within. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ 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

“ I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life… ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ If a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloudshadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ The only journey is the one within. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke
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