Strange Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

10 Strange quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry sometimes drifts into the uncanny, and this brief selection of ten lines captures that mood. He explores oddities of the soul and the world, giving readers a concise glimpse of his lyrical introspection.

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

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But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way…

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That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular,…

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Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that…

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Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened…

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We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible…

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Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws.…

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

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“It’s true enough, of course, no longer to live on earth is strange, to abandon customs barely mastered yet, not to interpret…

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That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular…

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