Quotes by Rilke, Rainer Maria

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficul >>

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will >>

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become consci >>

Quotations about Pleasure

Pleasure is none, if not diversified. >>

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of realit >>

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the >>

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Rilke, Rainer Maria