Rainer Maria Rilke quotes

“More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Truly to sing, that is a different breath.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke