Life Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

Art too is just a way of living.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Live the questions now.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Truly it is glorious, our being here.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“For somewhere reigns an old hostility / between living one's Life and doing one's Work.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“No, my life is not this precipitous hour through which you see me passing at a run.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life...

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“For there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is heavier than the weight of all things.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Always trust yourself. If it turns out you are wrong, then that natural course of your inner life will lead you to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Think... of the world which you carry within yourself... and set it above everything that you notice about you. Your inmost happening…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I do not wish to say that one should love death; but one should love life so magnanimously, so without calculating and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It’s true enough, of course, no longer to live on earth is strange, to abandon customs barely mastered yet, not to interpret…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“And if we only organize our life according to the principle which teaches us always to hold to what is difficult, then…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“And your doubts can become a good quality if you school them. They must grow to be knowledgeable , they must learn…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

— Rainer Maria Rilke