Bearable Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke Download Open image “Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.” — Rainer Maria Rilke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bearable Beauty Terror
Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Beauty is a curse put on the world. It keeps us from seeing who the real monsters are. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
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… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image