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. Rainer Maria Rilke Read Quote
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog. Rainer Maria Rilke Read Quote
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. Rainer Maria Rilke Read Quote
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Rainer Maria Rilke Read Quote
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. Rainer Maria Rilke Read Quote
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. Rainer Maria Rilke Read Quote
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. Rainer Maria Rilke Read Quote
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Rainer Maria Rilke Read Quote
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. Rainer Maria Rilke Read Quote
