Joy Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

19 Joy quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke’s take on joy feels intimate, as if he’s whispering a secret to the reader. These nineteen pieces capture his delicate balance between yearning and contentment, offering a gentle pause for contemplation.

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Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

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Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

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The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

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Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand…

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“If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our…

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Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can…

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To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully…

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

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“And those who come together in the night and are entwined in rocking delight do an earnest work and gather sweetnesses, gather…

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“If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our…

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If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of…

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“Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely, your path struggles on through incomprehensible mankind. All the more futile perhaps…

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“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And…

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Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute…

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All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of…

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Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our…

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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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Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among…

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“we want it visible to show when even the most visible joy will reveal itself only when we have transformed it within.…

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