“It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“There I sat, probably looking so dreadful that nothing had the courage to stand by me; not even the candle, which I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You are the partner of her loneliness, the unspeaking center of her monologues. With each disclosure you encompass more and she stretches… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“To retreat into oneself and meet nobody for hours on end—that is what one must be able to attain. To be alone,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours –… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
