More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration."
"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."
"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."
"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."