« All Room Quotes · Rainer Maria Rilke's Page
Room Quotes by 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. They carry strange…
- Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite,…
- Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you…
- For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off a fainter scent.…
- 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…
- 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,…
- You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is why: I hear…
More Room Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a… — Joseph Barbera
- Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? — Nicholson Baker
- Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper,… — Roseanne Barr
- I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
- I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of… — Drew Barrymore
- So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There… — Abu Bakar Bashir