“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
More from Rainer Maria Rilke on Life
“Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.”
“most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.”
“Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house is the last before the infinite,whoever you are.”
“The only journey is the one within.”
“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.”
“I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.”
“At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.”
“Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.”
“When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.”
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”