Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only 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.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it’s own secret

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

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.

Just keep going – no feeling is final.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

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

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don’t come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

Since I’ve learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

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.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.