Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens."

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"Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it."

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"The only journey is the one within."

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"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."

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"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."

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"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."

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"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."

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"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."

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"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

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"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been."

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"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."

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