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Longer Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished…
- Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out…
- Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in…
- the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it…
- Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.
- It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it…
- And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the…
- I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to.…
- Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer…
- Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that…
- All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself,…
More Longer Quotes
- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world… — Isaac Asimov
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard
- I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in… — Douglas Bader
- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels… — Amy Adams
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense… — Stanley Baldwin
- If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. — Alan Ball
- Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be… — J. G. Ballard