Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes (11+)

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance.

Don't be confused by surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law.

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

A person isn't who they were during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

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

The only journey is the one within.

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the deepest place of your heart? Can you avow that you would die if you were forbidden to write? Above all, in the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write? Dig deep into yourself for a true answer. And if it should ring its assent, if you can confidently meet this serious question with a simple, I must, then build your life upon it. It has become your necessity. Your life, in even the most mundane and least significant hour, must become a sign, a testimony to this urge.