--- title: "6 Forgotten Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke" description: "6 Forgotten quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke. Plus more from Rainer Maria Rilke and more Forgotten sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/891/rainer-maria-rilke-193_creative-thought_in-one-creative-thought-a-thousand-forgo_136394.jpg" --- > [“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/in-one-creative-thought-a-thousand-forgotten-nights-of-love-come-to/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/891/rainer-maria-rilke-193_creative-thought_in-one-creative-thought-a-thousand-forgo_136394.jpg) > [So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/so-you-mustn-t-be-frightened-dear-mr-kappus-if-a-sadness-rises-in/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/rainer-maria-rilke-193_anxiety_so-you-mustn-t-be-frightened-dear-mr-kap_948325.jpg) > [Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/oh-longing-for-places-that-were-not-cherished-enough-in-that-fleeting/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/596/rainer-maria-rilke-193_afar_oh-longing-for-places-that-were-not-cher_1560950.jpg) > [You must realise that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/you-must-realise-that-something-is-happening-to-you-that-life-has-not/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28f/rainer-maria-rilke-193_fall_you-must-realise-that-something-is-happe_1683287.jpg) > [You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/you-must-think-that-something-is-happening-upon-you-that-life-has-not/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/rainer-maria-rilke-193_fall_you-must-think-that-something-is-happeni_2638403.jpg) > [In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/in-one-creative-thought-a-thousand-forgotten-nights-of-love-revive/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67e/rainer-maria-rilke-193_creative_in-one-creative-thought-a-thousand-forgo_2837079.jpg) ## Other authors on Forgotten ## 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/forgotten/rainer-maria-rilke/#itemlist", "name": "6 Forgotten Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. 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