Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.