Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Dream

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

• Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Joy, Feelings

• Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Flower, Sleep, Long

• Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Joy, Marvelous, Pure

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.240, Vintage

• Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Perfect, Joy

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

• If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Joy, Littles

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

• Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sleep, Rose, Joy

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.260, Modern Library

• All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Thinking, Blood, Childhood

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Nine (November 04, 1904), 1929.

• The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Joy, Visible, Transformed

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

• Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Joy, Forever

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

• To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Joy, Dumb, Add

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

• Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Blood, Joy, Intoxication

  "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter Nine (4 November 1904), 1934.

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