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Quotes About Life

Do not think that the person who is trying to console you lives effortlessly among the simple, quiet words that sometimes make you feel better. His life is full of troubles and sadness and falls far short of them. But if it were any different he could never have found the words that he did.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I don't want to think a place for you. Speak to me from everywhere. Your Gospel can be comprehended without looking for its source. When I go toward you it is with my whole life.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Viva por algum tempo nesses livros, aprenda com eles o que lhe parecer digno de aprendizado, mas sobretudo os ame.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Aparecerá la mujer cuyo nombre ya no significará sólo algo opuesto al hombre, sino algo propio, independiente. Nada que haga pensar en complemento ni en límite, sino tan sólo en vida y en ser: el Humano femenino...
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Warum, wenn es angeht, also die Frist des Daseins hinzubringen, als Lorbeer, ein wenig dunkler als alles andere Grün, mit kleinen Wellen an jedem Blattrand (wie eines Windes Lächeln) –: warum dann Menschliches müssen – und, Schicksal vermeidend, sich sehnen nach Schicksal?. .
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Mädchen, Dichter sind, die von euch lernen das zu sagen, was ihr einsam seid; und sie lernen leben an euch Fernen, wie die Abende an großen Sternen sich gewöhnen an die Ewigkeit.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Con frecuencia es el nombre de un crimen lo que hace naufragar una vida, y no la acción individual y sin nombre, que quizá no era más que una determinada necesidad de esa vida, la cual podía aceptar aquella acción con inocencia y sin esfuerzo.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Mümkün müdür tüm gerçeklikler onlar için bir anlam ifade etmesin; mümkün müdür hayatlar? boÅŸ odalardaki saatler gibi hiçbirÅŸeye baÄŸlanmadan geçsin?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
You are a young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers; they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions now.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Life is right, in any case.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
But they are difficult things with which we have been charged; almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Ein Mal jedes, nur ein Mal. Ein Mal und nicht mehr. Und wir auch ein Mal. Nie wieder. Aber dieses ein Mal gewesen zu sein, wenn auch nur ein Mal: irdisch gewesen zu sein, scheint nicht widerrufbar.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life: in understanding as in creating.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
To understand our being here as one side of being in its entirety and to exhaust it passionately, this would be the demand placed on us by death; while life, as long as one truly admits it, is in every spot all of life.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
You are not too old And it is not too late . . .
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The only saddnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Forschen Sie jetzt nicht nach den Antworten, die Ihnen nicht gegeben werden können, weil Sie sie nicht leben könnten. Und es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht leben Sie dann allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
But the living are wrong in the sharp distinctions they make. Angels, it seems, don't always know if they're moving among the living or the dead.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Eines Tages wird das Mädchen da sein und die Frau, deren Name nicht mehr nur einen Gegensatz zum Männlichen bedeuten wird, sondern etwas für sich, etwas, wobei man keine Ergänzung und Grenze denkt, nur an Leben und Dasein - der weibliche Mensch. Dieser Fortschritt wird das Liebe-Erleben, das jetzt voll Irrung ist (...), verwandeln, von Grund aus verändern, zu einer Beziehung umbilden, die von Mensch zu Mensch gemeint ist, nicht mehr von Mann zu Weib.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.
~ Rainer Marie Rilke