More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"You darkness, that I come from,I love you more than all the firesthat fence in the world,for the fire makesa circle of light for everyone,and then no one outside learns of you.But the darkness pulls in everything:shapes and fires, animals and myself,how easily it gathers them! -powers and people -and it is possible a great energyis moving near me.I have faith in nights."
"A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead."
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."