Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart...

Rainer Maria Rilke

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Rafael Nadal

The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

Sharon Shinn

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

Sharon Shinn

Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.

Sharon Shinn

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

Sharon Shinn

Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.

Sharon Shinn

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

Sharon Tate

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

Shana Alexander

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Shana Alexander

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

Shana Alexander

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shane Claiborne

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

Shane Claiborne

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

Sepp Blatter

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

Sean Connery

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

Scott Boras

If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.

Scott Brooks

I love being in the gym.

Michelle Mone

You have to love yourself, not in an egotistical way, but if you love yourself, everyone else will love you.