Life Quotes Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.”

“I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?”

“He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.”

“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”

“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”