World Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

“It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Think... of the world you carry within you.

— 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

The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— 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

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping is nothing without the continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world,…

— 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

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so…

— 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

And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has…

— 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

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

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird…

— 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

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood…

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To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there…

— Rainer Maria Rilke