“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that...” — Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

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

“I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.”

“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”