Rainer Maria Rilke

"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."

Top Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

"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."

"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave."

"The only journey is the one within."

"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."

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."

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