Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Solitude, Introvert

• 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

• 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.

• 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”

• 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

  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

  Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker, 12 Feb. 1902, in Gesammelte Briefe (Collected Letters, 1904) vol. 1, p. 204

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Sexy

• 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.

• All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Order, Two

• 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

• Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Clever, Mean

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Three (April 23, 1903), 1929.

• 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

• I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Lying, Opportunity, Two

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1960). “Selected letters”

• 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.

• 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”

• 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

• 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”

• 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.

• 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.

• 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”

• Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Distance, Twilight, People

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

• 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”

• 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

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