Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

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

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.

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

Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

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

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

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

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