Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Loneliness

Quotes about: Loneliness

• 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”

• Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Loneliness, Criticism

• 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”

• Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Loneliness, Infinite

  'Briefe an einem jungen Dichter' (Letters to a Young Poet, 1929) 23 April 1903 (translation by Reginald Snell)

• The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Loneliness, Fall

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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