Home » Quote » Rainer Maria Rilke » „Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.“ „Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.“ — Rainer Maria Rilke Tags:Beauty Related quotes „A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.“ — C.G. Jung „Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.“ — Rainer Maria Rilke „For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible.“ — Rainer Maria Rilke „If there is anything beautiful other than absolute beauty, that can only be beautiful as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and this I should say of everything. …by beauty all things become beautiful. …by greatness only great things become great and greater and greater, and by smallness the less becomes less.“ — Socrates