Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Rainer Maria Rilke