Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke Download Open image “So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.” — Rainer Maria Rilke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us. — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other. — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood. — John Baldessari 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