--- title: "8 Bottom Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke" description: "8 Bottom quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke. Plus more from Rainer Maria Rilke and more Bottom sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/725/rainer-maria-rilke-193_assuming_we-must-assume-our-existence-as-broadly_62387.jpg" --- > [We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/we-must-assume-our-existence-as-broadly-as-we-in-any-way-can/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/725/rainer-maria-rilke-193_assuming_we-must-assume-our-existence-as-broadly_62387.jpg) > [All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/all-feelings-that-concentrate-you-and-lift-you-up-are-pure-only-that/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/rainer-maria-rilke-193_blood_all-feelings-that-concentrate-you-and-li_422087.jpg) > [That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/that-is-at-bottom-the-only-courage-that-is-demanded-of-us-to-have/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/885/rainer-maria-rilke-193_bottom_that-is-at-bottom-the-only-courage-that_1426894.jpg) > [I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-would-like-to-sing-someone-to-sleep-to-sit-beside-someone-and-be/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f18/rainer-maria-rilke-193_bottom_i-would-like-to-sing-someone-to-sleep-to_2059423.jpg) > [“At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/at-bottom-and-just-in-the-deepest-and-most-important-things-we-are/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c1/rainer-maria-rilke-193_able_at-bottom-and-just-in-the-deepest-and-mo_2293679.jpg) > [That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/that-is-at-bottom-the-only-courage-that-is-demanded-of-us-to-have-2/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/255/rainer-maria-rilke-193_bottom_that-is-at-bottom-the-only-courage-that_2545042.jpg) > [At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/at-the-bottom-no-one-in-life-can-help-anyone-else-in-life-this-one/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c00/rainer-maria-rilke-193_best-things_at-the-bottom-no-one-in-life-can-help-an_2612784.jpg) > [Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/every-intensification-is-good-if-it-is-in-your-entire-blood-if-it-isn/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cb/rainer-maria-rilke-193_blood_every-intensification-is-good-if-it-is-i_3006075.jpg) ## Other authors on Bottom ## More by Rainer Maria Rilke > [The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/the-artist-s-experience-lies-so-unbelievably-close-to-the-sexual-to/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/out-of-infinite-longings-rise-finite-deeds-like-weak-fountains/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-love-the-dark-hours-of-my-being-my-mind-deepens-into-them-there-i/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/a-complete-sharing-between-two-people-is-an-impossibility-and/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/but-this-is-what-people-are-so-often-and-disastrously-wrong-in-doing/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/if-there-is-nothing-you-can-share-with-other-people-try-to-be-close/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [To be here is immense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/to-be-here-is-immense/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“Sin is the most wonderfully roundabout path to God”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/sin-is-the-most-wonderfully-roundabout-path-to-god/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/swells-marina-we-ocean-depths-marina-we-sky/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/the-point-of-marriage-is-not-to-create-a-quick-commonality-by-tearing/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/you-life-will-find-its-own-paths-and-that-they-be-good-rich-and-wide/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-do-not-want-to-be-folded-for-where-i-am-folded-there-i-am-a-lie/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/at-no-other-time-than-autumn-does-the-earth-let-itself-be-inhaled-in/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/that-is-why-the-sadness-passes-the-new-presence-inside-us-the/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/have-patience-with-everything-that-remains-unsolved-in-your-heart-try/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bottom/rainer-maria-rilke/#itemlist", "name": "8 Bottom Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. 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