Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other. — 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
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
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.” — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes,… — 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
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 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
