Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Terror

Quotes about: Terror

• Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Compassion, Flare Up

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

• God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Moving, Night

• For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Angel, Able, Endure

• Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Terror, Bearable

• Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Angel, Would Be

  Duino Elegies no. 1 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

• We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them.... Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Princess, Dragons

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Fear Of The Inexplicable”

• Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Able, Endure, Terror

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.3, Vintage

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