“A billion stars go spinning through the night,glittering above your head,But in you is the presence that will bewhen all the stars are dead.”
More from Rainer Maria Rilke on Life
“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
“Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.”
“most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.”
“Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house is the last before the infinite,whoever you are.”
“The only journey is the one within.”
“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.”
“I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.”
“At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.”
“Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.”
“When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Mitch Albom
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Henry Miller
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Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
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Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
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Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”