Famous Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

  • 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 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 Maria Rilke

  • Everything that has been wrestled from doubtI welcome-the mouths that burst open afterlong knowledge of what it is to be mute. – Rainer Maria Rilke

    Everything that has been wrestled from doubtI welcome-the mouths that burst open afterlong knowledge of what it is to be mute.– Rainer Maria Rilke

  • When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small. – Rainer Maria Rilke

    When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.– Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. – Rainer Maria Rilke

    Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.– Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you. – Rainer Maria Rilke

    Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.– Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.– Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. – Rainer Maria Rilke

    Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.– Rainer Maria Rilke

  • At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me. – Rainer Maria Rilke

    At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.– Rainer Maria Rilke

  • I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough. – Rainer Maria Rilke

    I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.– Rainer Maria Rilke

  • We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. – Rainer Maria Rilke

    We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.– Rainer Maria Rilke