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People Quotes by 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 tongue; it is…
- Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must…
- For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.
- Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in…
- 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…
- Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange…
- If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are…
- Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.
- May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.
- I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
- Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!
- Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad
- Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no…
- Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see…
- Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.
- most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back…
- You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle…
- There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes,…
- I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and…
- For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the…
- Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the…
- So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.
- 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,…
- As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future…
- But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that err less. Therefore,…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle