“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.” — 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
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude. — 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
“At first the solitude charmed me like a prelude, but so much music wounded me.” — 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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 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
It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and… — 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… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“MUSIC: Take me by the hand; it's so easy for you, Angel, for you are the road even while being immobile. You… — 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
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
“Suddenly, from all the green around you, something-you don't know what-has disappeared; you feel it creeping closer to the window, in total… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Have (with the help of convention) found the solution of everything in ease and the easiest side of ease; but it is… — 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
“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 clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You must not let yourself be misled, in your solitude, by the fact that there is something in you which wants to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But I have thought of you often during these holidays and imagined how quiet you must be in your lonely fort among… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that… — 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
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — 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
