I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is. — 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
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
We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Only love is like an arrow to your heart; the more you try to take it out, the more pain and blood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to… — 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
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false... — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The essence of love lies not in communion, but in the fact that each partner forces the other to become something, something… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there… — 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
But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to say that one should love death; but one should love life so magnanimously, so without calculating and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Believe in a love that is preserved for you like a heritage, and trust that in this love there is a strength… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge… — 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
“Lovers were not, Marina, are not permitted to know destruction so deeply. Must be as if they were new. Only their grave… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You, you only, exist. We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that you arise: beautiful moment, in all… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath- no: as one presses it against a wound out of which the whole of life,… — 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
“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
“try to have love for the questions themselves, like locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Do not seek… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. — 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
What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. — 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
