Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

I don't know why I write what I write.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I used to love writing in my journal.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

The only journey is the one within.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?