Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Since I’ve learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

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.

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.

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

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

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

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it’s own secret

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don’t come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

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 everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.