More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."
"It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)"
"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."
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."