More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess."
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing."
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."