Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Fate

Quotes about: Fate

• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Fate, Should Have

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

• Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Lying, Fate

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

• Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien: A Dual-Language Book”, p.53, Courier Corporation

• No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Hands, Events

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

• What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mean, Fate, Hands

• The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Fate, Patient

  Letters to a Young Poet: Letter Eight (12 August 1904), 1934.

• What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Doe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.266, Vintage

• They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Long Ago, Blood

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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