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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes about Solitude

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

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love, Solitude, Introvert

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude

Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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 believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Believe, Simplicity, Solitude

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Patience, Ego, Solitude

"Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 42, 1990.

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 find all your paths.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Home, Support, 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 must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Children, Solitude, Able

"Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 6, 1929.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Pain, Solitude, Trying

Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, New World Library

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 not true. That is all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude, Solitary, Ifs

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Confidence, People, Solitude

Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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 which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude, Wedding Day, Good Marriage

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 can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude, Trying, Cost

"The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers" by Andrew Solomon, www.newyorker.com. March 11, 2015.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Patience, Ego, Solitude

"Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 42, 1990.

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 of it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Confused, Moving, Solitude

Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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 and be fair to them.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Art, Mean, Solitude

Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Long, Solitude, Life Is

Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

Falling In Love, Two, Solitude

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude, Able, Hours

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude, Ends, Needed

Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Being Alone, Solitude, Reason

"Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Seven (May 14, 1904), 1929.

I implore those who love me to love my solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude

... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude

Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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 any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Loneliness, Agreement, Solitude

Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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