--- title: "8 Want Unfold Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke" description: "8 Want Unfold quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke. Plus more from Rainer Maria Rilke and more Want Unfold sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53a/rainer-maria-rilke-193_action_i-don-t-want-to-stand-before-you-like-a_387375.jpg" --- > [I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-don-t-want-to-stand-before-you-like-a-thing-shrewd-secretive-i-want/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53a/rainer-maria-rilke-193_action_i-don-t-want-to-stand-before-you-like-a_387375.jpg) > [“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-am-too-alone-in-the-world-and-yet-not-alone-enough-to-make-every/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e55/rainer-maria-rilke-193_describe-myself_i-am-too-alone-in-the-world-and-yet-not_463893.jpg) > [I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-want-to-unfold-let-no-place-in-me-hold-itself-closed-for-where-i-am/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fe/rainer-maria-rilke-193_inspirational_i-want-to-unfold-let-no-place-in-me-hold_827634.jpg) > [“I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-want-my-own-will-and-i-want-simply-to-be-with-my-will-as-it-goes/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a27/rainer-maria-rilke-193_poetry_i-want-my-own-will-and-i-want-simply-to_863681.jpg) > [“I’m too alone in the world, yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I’m too small in the world, yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-m-too-alone-in-the-world-yet-not-alone-enough-to-make-each-hour/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a97/rainer-maria-rilke-193_time_i-m-too-alone-in-the-world-yet-not-alone_1532082.jpg) > [I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-want-to-unfold-i-don-t-want-to-stay-folded-anywhere-because-where-i/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43c/rainer-maria-rilke-193_folded_i-want-to-unfold-i-don-t-want-to-stay-fo_2344371.jpg) > [I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-want-to-unfold-i-don-t-want-to-stay-folded-anywhere-because-where-i-2/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/223/rainer-maria-rilke-193_being-true_i-want-to-unfold-i-don-t-want-to-stay-fo_2445346.jpg) > [“I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-want-to-unfold-i-don-t-want-to-be-folded-anywhere-because-where-i/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a55/rainer-maria-rilke-193_folded_i-want-to-unfold-i-don-t-want-to-be-fold_2545836.jpg) ## More by Rainer Maria Rilke > [The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/the-artist-s-experience-lies-so-unbelievably-close-to-the-sexual-to/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/out-of-infinite-longings-rise-finite-deeds-like-weak-fountains/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-love-the-dark-hours-of-my-being-my-mind-deepens-into-them-there-i/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/a-complete-sharing-between-two-people-is-an-impossibility-and/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/but-this-is-what-people-are-so-often-and-disastrously-wrong-in-doing/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/if-there-is-nothing-you-can-share-with-other-people-try-to-be-close/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [To be here is immense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/to-be-here-is-immense/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“Sin is the most wonderfully roundabout path to God”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/sin-is-the-most-wonderfully-roundabout-path-to-god/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/swells-marina-we-ocean-depths-marina-we-sky/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/the-point-of-marriage-is-not-to-create-a-quick-commonality-by-tearing/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/you-life-will-find-its-own-paths-and-that-they-be-good-rich-and-wide/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-do-not-want-to-be-folded-for-where-i-am-folded-there-i-am-a-lie/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/at-no-other-time-than-autumn-does-the-earth-let-itself-be-inhaled-in/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/that-is-why-the-sadness-passes-the-new-presence-inside-us-the/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) > [“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/have-patience-with-everything-that-remains-unsolved-in-your-heart-try/) [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want-unfold/rainer-maria-rilke/#itemlist", "name": "8 Want Unfold Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. I want to unfold. 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