Google
|
The quotations are arranged by author name.
Current counts: Authors: 8,146. Quotations: 38,970
Select the first character of the author's last name that you want to look at:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
|
| Rainer Maria Rilke
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. 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. All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. Every angel is terrifying.Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name. For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. God ... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it ... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better. 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. I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. all becoming has need me. I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. If the angel deigns to come it will because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner. 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. It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. 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. Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. Life – a sexually transmitted terminal condition. Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. Not into a beyond whose shadow darkens the earth, but into a whole, into the whole. One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. 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. That is the principal thing – not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. There are quantities of human faces, 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. There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Truly to sing, that is a different breath. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings. Works of art are indeed always products of having been in danger, of having gone to the very end in an experience, to where man can go no further. [It is our] fate to be opposite and nothing else, and always opposite. |
|
Sports Quotations.
Show Business Quotations.
|