Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Do not assume that someone else has your answers. Seek them out for yourself. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live your way into the answers. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. – Rainer Maria Rilke

The only journey is the one within. – Rainer Maria Rilke

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is gestation and then birthing. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is blooming most recklessly. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps just one person in the world is carried with patience toward her own ripening. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. – Rainer Maria Rilke

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. – Rainer Maria Rilke

There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Do not let your sense of morality prevent you from doing what is right. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Don’t be scared to suffer in order to grow. – Rainer Maria Rilke

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is difficult not because it is demanding, but because it is unyielding. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is perhaps the most difficult and important capacity of human being. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms or books that are written in a very foreign tongue. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Only when I am overcome by ideas that a great deal is happening. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Beware, my son, of anything practical. – Rainer Maria Rilke

The more one loves, the more one leads a vulnerable life. – Rainer Maria Rilke

There is no escape: thou must cast thyself down, come what may. – Rainer Maria Rilke

May the things always happen to you that require your entire being. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Immerse yourself in what you love. Do it as often as you can, and you will find the way to happiness. – Rainer Maria Rilke

To love is good, too: love being difficult. – Rainer Maria Rilke

That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. – Rainer Maria Rilke

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. – Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. – Rainer Maria Rilke

In you, alone, the spirit of the world is mirrored and if you do not find yourself, nothing else will. – Rainer Maria Rilke

A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. – Rainer Maria Rilke