“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I'm as if cast out, and this solitude surrounds me as something vast and unbounded, when my feeling, standing on the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
