Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

487 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

Love

“That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love.”

People Heart Beginners

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

Hopeful

“You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.”

Hands Fall Forgotten

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Happy

“To be here is immense.”

Generosity Immense

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Wise

“He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.”

Law One Thing

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Love

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”

Heart Eye Fire

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Philosophical

“Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.”

Art Spring Unique

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Spiritual

“No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.”

Way Helping

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Philosophical

“Live the questions now.”

Life

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Spiritual

“Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.”

Heart Feelings Simple

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Philosophical

“The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.”

Feelings Silence New Experiences

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Motivated

“Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.”

Simple Success Ends

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Sad

“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.”

Order Sadness Noise

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