Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotes

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.

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.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

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.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

The only journey is the one within.

The only journey is the one within.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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