Quotes

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Truly to sing, that is a different breath.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.” Jon Stewart

“We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.” Jon Stewart

“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.” Jon Stewart

“There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.” Jon Stewart

“Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.” Jon Stewart

“Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.” Jon Stewart

“I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.” Jon Stewart