Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Authors:
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
(Click a letter to view the authors)
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "R" » Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
«The only journey is the one within.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
journey
«...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.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
brave, deepest, dragons, Everything is Beautiful, helpless, princesses, terrible
«The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.»
«Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other»
«Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
accepted, closest, continue, distance, distances, For each, human beings, infinite, realization, side by side, sky
«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.»
«The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
defeated
«Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.»
«At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
at the bottom, bottom, conflict, expanse, experiences, over and over, perplexities, perplexity, The Bottom, this one
«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»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!