Life Quotes Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.”

“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were”

“It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case.”

“His vision, from the constantly passing bars,”

“Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.”

“O Stunden in der Kindheit,”

“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”

“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”

“When the door starts to creak it may be time to take it off the hinges. If things get rusted, life has to be called into question and matters re-evaluated. ( “In the doorway” )”

“We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.”