Quotes by : Rainer Maria Rilke

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every....

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness,....

If somewhere deep within me arises some essenceof having been a child, one I never experienced,perhaps....

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity.......

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest,....

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against....

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness,....

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but....

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks....

Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home.Speak and attest. More than everthe things we can....