Time Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and…

— 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

Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I believe that one is never more just than at those moments when one admires unreservedly and with absolute devotion.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“You, you only, exist. We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that you arise: beautiful moment, in all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Lovers were not, Marina, are not permitted to know destruction so deeply. Must be as if they were new. Only their grave…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Just a moment ..., I savour this ... ah, but it’s flown already. ... Only a bit of music, stamping in time,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“There comes a time when we have deposited in it all our firstlings, all beginning, all confidence, the seeds of all that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I have a notion that, at big fires, a moment of extreme suspense can sometimes occur, when the jets of water slacken…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons…

— 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

“Odd, the words: ‘while away the time’. How to hold it fast the harder thing. Who is not fearful: where is there…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Do you remember…(doesn’t that appear in each of my letters?), do you remember that you spoke of how eagerly you experienced that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually develop and slowly…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“In their new personal development the girl and the woman will only be for a short time imitations of the good and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke