Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

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.