Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

I just love my privacy.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

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

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.

To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.