This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKEFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
-
-
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
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.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
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.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKE