More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."
"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."
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"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."