Inspirational Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

To be here is immense.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The point is to live everything.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Space for the Spirit to breathe.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art too is just a way of living.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Where I create, there I am true.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

All professions are... filled with demands.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Now for some heartwork.

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Truly it is glorious, our being here.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large...

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his…

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Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false...

— Rainer Maria Rilke

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things…

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Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as…

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We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are…

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“Long you must suffer, knowing not what, until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you. Then…

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for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons…

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like…

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“III But may I, when alone again I have the city's crush and tangled noise-skein and the furor of its traffic all…

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“Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills…

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“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very…

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What batters you becomes your strength.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

To work is to live without dying.

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Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke