"To be loved means to be consumed. To……" — Rainer Maria Rilke
"To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure."
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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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More Consumed Quotes
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
— Dave Barry
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not…
— Erma Bombeck
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I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
— Jimmy Buffett
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You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and…
— Jim Carrey
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The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
— Nick Clegg
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
— Antisthenes
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We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to…
— Watchman Nee
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When the hater's fire singes the hated, the hater has already been consumed.
— Wes Fesler
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It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you…
— Jonathan Ive
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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really…
— John Owen
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To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is…
— Rajneesh
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