Stills Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still…

— 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

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

We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“O trees of life, O when are you wintering? We are not unified. We have no instincts like those of migratory birds.…

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They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost…

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My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it…

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I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the…

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And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one…

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You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and…

— 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

Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

— 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…

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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I…

— Rainer Maria Rilke