Top 36 Quotes by 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.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

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

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

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

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

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.

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.