Giving Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this…

— 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

For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing , it must become criticism. Ask…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing That is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks As it divides…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds…

— Rainer Maria Rilke