Night Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense’s crossroad...

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

weren’t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her,…

— 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

If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“That's my window. This minute So gently did I alight From sleep--was still floating in it. Where has my life its limit…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Odd, the words: ‘while away the time’. How to hold it fast the harder thing. Who is not fearful: where is there…

— 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