Existing Intensely Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

To be here is immense.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Sin is the most wonderfully roundabout path to God”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!

— 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…

— 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…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie.

— Rainer Maria Rilke