The best Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

The best Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief.

The more love you give, the more you own.

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Love Selflessness

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Love Protection

The only journey is the one within.

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.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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Love Hurting Sad Quotes

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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Love Relationships

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

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Love Valentine's Day

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

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I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!

Kat Stratford in 10 Things I Hate About You

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Love Love declerations

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Johnny Depp

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Love Laughing & Smile Breathing

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Love Beauty Valentine's Day

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries - Season 1 Episode 6

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Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

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Death Selflessness

Time after time after time I do all this shit for other people, and then I wake up and I'm empty. I have nothing.

Tifanny in Silver Linings

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Breakup Selflessness

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again.

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Life Selflessness

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

General Iroh in The Legend of Korra - Season 2 Episode 10

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Problems Selflessness

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

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Friendship Selflessness

Does it really need a reason to help somebody?

Zidane Tribal in Final Fantasy - IX

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Selflessness Being nice

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Wisdom of the Sands

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Desire Ocean Ships

The human world... it's a mess.

Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Charles Kettering

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Fear Giving Up Ocean Ships

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

Karen Blixen in Out of Africa

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Crying & Tears Ocean Sweating

The ocean is where I go
To lose my mind and find my soul

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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
it's always our self we find in the sea.

Edward Estlin Cummings

We protect the people we love, no matter the cost.

Egwene al'Vere in The Wheel of Time - Season 1

I'd do anything to protect my kids like no one ever protected me. Anything.

Georgia Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 10

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There are times when you have to give up on one thing to preserve the other.

Rize Kamishiro in Tokyo Ghoul

Giving Up Protection

I think sometimes we aren't keeping secrets to hide from other people. I think sometimes we're keeping them to protect those people.

Tony Padilla in 13 Reasons Why - Season 2 Episode 2

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Secrets Protection

Next to God, there is no greater protector than I.

Mr. T (American Actor)

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The Gods only protect the strong.

Agamemnon in Troy

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Strength Protection

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Denahi in Brother Bear

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Spring Change Magic

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. For example, you're walking along minding your own business, you're looking neither to the left, nor to the right, when all of the sudden, you run smack into a pretty face. You begin to get weak in the knees, your head's in a whirl! And then you feel light as feather, and before you know it you're walking on air! And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop! And you completely lose your head!

Friend Owl in Bambi

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Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime.

Walt Disney

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How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring.

Edwin Way Teale

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Spring November

The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.

Edwin Way Teale

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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Hal Borland

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Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.

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New Year's Beginning

It's up to you to decide whether you want the new year to be an engine or a break.

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Happy new year. Not that there's anything to be happy about, though... I'm just saying it because it's the norm.

Nehan in Granblue Fantasy: Relink

You always want to end the year on a high note.

Andy Dalton

We have 365 days ahead of us. 365 new chances, hopes, and possibilities to make the world a better place. Let's go!

Don't grasp the past, you need both hands for the future.

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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