Love Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

134 Love quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Put out my eyes, and I can still see you; the quotes say love lives inside us, beyond sight or sound. They suggest that love can arise within, like a fate we create, and that love and death are gifts we receive.

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Where I create, there I am true.

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Art too is just a way of living.

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Learn to love the questions themselves.

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To be here is immense.

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Love the questions, themselves.

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The point is to live everything.

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What batters you becomes your strength.

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To work is to live without dying.

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Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

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Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

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I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

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I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

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Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

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Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

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Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.

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Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

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We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

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Only love is like an arrow to your heart; the more you try to take it out, the more pain and blood…

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That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

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I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false...

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We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to…

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Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as…

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For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his…

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And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary;…

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“What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can…

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“Again and again, however we know the landscape of love and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names, and the frighteningly…

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“The essence of love lies not in communion, but in the fact that each partner forces the other to become something, something…

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But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude,…

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“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of…

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“I do not wish to say that one should love death; but one should love life so magnanimously, so without calculating and…

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test…

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Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there…

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“As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath- no: as one presses it against a wound out of which the whole of life,…

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“Lovers were not, Marina, are not permitted to know destruction so deeply. Must be as if they were new. Only their grave…

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“You, you only, exist. We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that you arise: beautiful moment, in all…

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“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough,…

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“It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps…

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“Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something…

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“This advance (at first very much against the will of the outdistanced men) will transform the love experience, which is now filled…

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“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And…

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To be here is immense.

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