Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Wherever you go and whomever you meet, you will find your own love waiting for you.

Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth. We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you.

Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.

For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

Talk about celestial bodies.

Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

All the stars all the galaxies are in the same spot night after night after night. And Planet Nine, when we see it, will slowly move across the sky.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

We only see starlight because all the stars are bleeding.

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the very next person who you stand behind in line or sit next to on an aeroplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.

Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way it was a simple thing: a lost diary fell into the hands of a soul-sick war hero on a train from Bombay to Jaipur just when he'd grown tired of the scenery and needed something to keep his thoughts from the minefield of his wretched thoughts. In such mild ways is the groundwork laid for first kisses and ruined lives.

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.