Solitude Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“At first the solitude charmed me like a prelude, but so much music wounded me.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

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I implore those who love me to love my solitude.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my solitude." ( Letter to Mimi Romanelli , May 11, 1910)”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Suddenly I'm as if cast out, and this solitude surrounds me as something vast and unbounded, when my feeling, standing on the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to…

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The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

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

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and…

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“MUSIC: Take me by the hand; it's so easy for you, Angel, for you are the road even while being immobile. You…

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“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

“there is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“There exists only one aloneness, and it is great, and it is not easy to bear. To nearly everyone come those hours…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened…

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“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

“it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us…

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“But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and…

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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

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

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and…

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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

“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

“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

But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that…

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“What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours –…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very…

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“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in…

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The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

— Rainer Maria Rilke