“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual… — 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)… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Put out my eyes, and I can see you still; slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet; and without… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“How shall I hold my soul that it may not Be touching yours? How shall I lift it then Above you to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“To Lou: I want to see the world through you; for then I shall not be seeing the world but only you,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Don't ask for any advice from them and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as… — 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
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.” — 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
