Quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.

One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!

Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.

What batters you becomes your strength.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.