Top 73 Quotes About Love Rainer Maria Rilke

#1. Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!

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#2. There is time only to work slowly
There is no time not to love

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#3. What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

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#4. Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves
from the loved one and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the string, collecting itself
to be more than itself as it shoots?

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#5. 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 ...

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#6. What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.

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#7. We are the bees of the invisible. We gather the honey of the visible, and store it in the great golden honeycomb of the invisible.

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#8. Think ... of the world which you carry within yourself ... and set it above everything that you notice about you. Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not loose too much time and too much courage in explaining your attitude to people.

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#9. Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

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#10. How he loved and yet
wished to leave you: always both, at once.

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#11. To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

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#12. Be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything else ... What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

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#13. Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

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#14. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love.

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#15. The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.

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#16. Learn to love the questions themselves.

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#17. Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

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#18. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.

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#19. The essence of love lies not in communion, but in the fact that each partner forces the other to become something, something infinitely great, the extreme limit of his strength.

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#20. Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not lose too much time and too much courage in explaining

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#21. As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.

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#22. I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.

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#23. That's love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

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#24. Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.

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#25. Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours
grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves
from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:
the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string
to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.

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#26. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

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#27. Love the questions themselves ... Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.

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#28. You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.

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#29. We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

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#30. It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

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#31. Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the love-life a pastime, it has also felt obliged to trivialize it, to make it cheap, risk-free and secure, as public pleasures usually are.

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#32. Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them.

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#33. And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

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#34. Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

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#35. It is true that many young people who do not love rightly, who simply surrender themselves and leave no room for aloneness, experience the depressing feeling of failure.

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

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#37. Isn't it time that, loving, we freed ourselves
from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be,
in its flight, something more than itself?

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#38. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

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#39. That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

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#40. In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

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#41. Live a while in these books, learn from them what seems to you worth learning, but above all, love them.

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#42. Weren't you always
distracted by expectation, as if every event
announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place
to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you
going and coming and often staying all night.) ...

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#43. O Lord, give each person his own personal death. / A thing that moves out of the same life he lived, / In which he had love, and intelligence, and trouble.

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#44. I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

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#45. Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

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#46. Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

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#47. For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.

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#48. Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish

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#49. Long you must suffer, knowing not what,
until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.
Then you will love almost instantly what's tasted. No one will ever talk you out of it.

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#50. 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.

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#51. I don't want to talk to anyone, lest I squander your words' echo, which ripples like a shine over mine and lends their sound a richness.

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#52. Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

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#53. I implore those who love me to love my solitude.

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#54. Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

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#55. Then draw near to nature. Pretend you are the very first man and then write what you see and experience, what you love and lose.

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#56. I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

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#57. Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.

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#58. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

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#59. Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love. Death stands before eternity and says YES.

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#60. I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.

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#61. We want it visible
to show
when even the most
visible joy
will reveal itself
only when we have
transformed it within.
there's nowhere, my love, the
world can exist
expect within.

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#62. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

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#63. Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live with them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now.

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#64. The world of sexuality it finds is not entirely mature and pure, it is not human enough, only virile, rut, intoxication, restlessness, and weighed down by the old prejudices and arrogance with which men have disfigured and overburdened love.

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#65. You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

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#66. Then suddenly you're left all alone
with your body that can't love you
and your will that can't save you.

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#67. Now we wake up with our memory
and fix our gazes on that which was;
whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,
sits silently beside us with loosened hair

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#68. Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.

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#69. Believe in a love that is preserved for you like a heritage, and trust that in this love there is a strength and a blessing which you are not bound to leave behind you though you may travel far!

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#70. Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

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#71. Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

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#72. What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

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#73. You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

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