--- title: "6 Draws Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke" description: "6 Draws quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke. Plus more from Rainer Maria Rilke and more Draws sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fda/rainer-maria-rilke-193_blame_don-t-be-too-quick-to-draw-conclusions-f_1329241.jpg" --- > [Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/don-t-be-too-quick-to-draw-conclusions-from-what-happens-to-you/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fda/rainer-maria-rilke-193_blame_don-t-be-too-quick-to-draw-conclusions-f_1329241.jpg) > [Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/yet-everything-that-touches-us-me-and-you-takes-us-together-like-a/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/rainer-maria-rilke-193_bows_yet-everything-that-touches-us-me-and-yo_2133196.jpg) > [This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/this-above-all-ask-yourself-in-the-stillest-hour-of-your-night-must-i/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62f/rainer-maria-rilke-193_affirmative_this-above-all-ask-yourself-in-the-still_2159930.jpg) > [Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/don-t-observe-yourself-too-closely-don-t-be-too-quick-to-draw/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c79/rainer-maria-rilke-193_conclusion_don-t-observe-yourself-too-closely-don-t_2663977.jpg) > [Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/draw-near-to-nature-then-try-like-some-first-human-being-to-say-what/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17c/rainer-maria-rilke-193_and-love_draw-near-to-nature-then-try-like-some-f_2994868.jpg) > [Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/losing-too-is-still-ours-and-even-forgetting-still-has-a-shape-in-the/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/091/rainer-maria-rilke-193_change_losing-too-is-still-ours-and-even-forget_3187114.jpg) ## Other authors on Draws ## 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/draws/rainer-maria-rilke/#itemlist", "name": "6 Draws Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. 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