Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

Explore a curated collection of 22 quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it sere — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty haze — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only wepass by it all, like a rush of air.And ever — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Every angel is terrifying. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Isn’t it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the lov — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
But not you, O girl, nor yet his mother,stretched his eyebrows so fierce with expectation.Not for your mouth, you who ho — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Who shows a child, just as they are? Who sets itin its constellation, and gives the measureof distance into its hand? Wh — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, s — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the stri — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home.Speak and attest. More than everthe things we can live with are fall — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
A kind of memory that tells usthat what we're now striving for was oncenearer and truer and attached to uswith infinite — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of empti — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep he — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,just once. And never again. But to have beenthis once, completely, e — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
O smile, going where? O upturned look:new, warm, receding surge of the heart--;alas, we are that surge. Does then the co — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies