Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love. — 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
... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. — 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
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
“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
You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This is tha miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, tha more they possess. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Long you must suffer, knowing not what, until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you. Then… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I think of you at any time of the day and my worried thoughts accompany all your steps. The slightest breath on… — 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
“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
“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
“they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves,… — 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
“In their new personal development the girl and the woman will only be for a short time imitations of the good and… — 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
These soft nights hold me like themselves aloft and I lie without a lover. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first… — 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
“Now we wake up with our memory and fix our gazes on that which was; whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For believe me, the more one is, the richer is all that one experiences. And whoever wants to have a deep love… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually develop and slowly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In a case like this, the thing is (in my own opinion) to draw back upon oneself, and not to strive after… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can… — 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
“These Things, whose essential life want to express, first ask you, “Are you free? Are you prepared to devote all your love… — 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
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
