"Beauty is only the start of bearable terror." — Rainer Maria Rilke
"Beauty is only the start of bearable terror."
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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434 Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke has 434 quotes on this site.
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There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he…
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and…
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Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
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Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit…
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its…
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I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
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Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you…
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart...
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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
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Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.
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Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a…
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will…
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of…
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Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
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The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but…
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The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
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The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment.…
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at…
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