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Solitude Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for…
- Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
- Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.
- I implore those who love me to love my solitude.
- What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you…
- ... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.
- The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in…
- What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.
- May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.
- Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were…
- Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of…
- Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
- I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
- I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
- It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
- The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be…
- Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
- But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will…
- Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant...
- It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to…
- a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
- And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out…
- it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it…
- Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them…
- The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.
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- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. — Francis Bacon
- Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. — Honore de Balzac
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn
- I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. — Elayne Boosler
- I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses… — Jorge Luis Borges
- I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient… — Emily Bronte
- Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. — Robert Browning
- Solitude is the place of purification. — Martin Buber