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Quotes About Loss

I like sunglasses, the bigger the better, but I lose about a pair a week.
~ Paul Wesley
I don't spend a bunch of money on jewelry or sunglasses, because I lose them a lot.
~ Mike Will Made It
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
~ Isoroku Yamamoto
It's never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses.
~ AB de Villiers
Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.
~ Don Shula
The thing about the 2008 season which sticks out for so many people was we were coming off the 18-1 year where we went to the Super Bowl and lost in dramatic fashion with the catch and everything else that happened.
~ Matt Cassel
The first bet I remember was on the Chargers in Super Bowl 29 with my classmates. I lost a lot of weeks' allowance.
~ James Holzhauer
Losing the Super Bowl, it's awful, I don't wish that on anyone, unless I'm playing them, but I think it definitely was a teaching moment.
~ George Kittle
Because I never held you close, I hold you forever.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Wie hab ich das gefühlt was Abschied heißt. Wie weiß ichs noch: ein dunkles unverwundnes grausames etwas, das ein Schönverbundnes noch einmal zeigt und hinhält und zerreißt.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
My old furniture is rotting in a barn where I was permitted to store it, and as for myself, dear God, I don't have a roof over my head and it is raining into my eyes.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely, your path struggles on through incomprehensible mankind. All the more futile perhaps for keeping to its direction, keeping on toward the future, toward what has been lost. Once. You lamented? What was it? A fallen berry of jubilation, unripe. But now the whole tree of my jubilation is breaking, in the storm it is breaking, my slow tree of joy. Loveliest in my invisible landscape, you that made me more known to the invisible angels.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
You don't survive in me because of memories; nor are you mine because of a lovely longing's strength. What does make you present is the ardent detour that a slow tenderness traces in my blood. I do not need to see you appear; being born sufficed for me to lose you a little less.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Even on days when fate wishes to bestow boundless gifts on them, most people make mistakes in accepting: they don't accept straightforwardly and consequently lose something while doing so, they take with a secondary purpose in mind, or they accept what is given to them as if they were being compensated for something else.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Through love and through death, our innate ability to transform the loss of control is activated to bring forth a deeper awareness of life.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
turn towards nature, and try, like a First Man, to say what you see and experience and love and lose.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Through loss, through great, immoderate loss, we are actually quite introduced into the Whole. Death is only an unsparing way of placing us on intimate and trusting terms with that side of our existence that is turned away from us.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I have my dead and I have let them go and been surprised, to see them so consoled, so soon at home in death, just right this way, so unlike what we hear. Only you, you come back; you brush against me, you move about, you want to knock into things, to make them sound of you, telling me you're here. Oh don't take away what I'm slowly learning.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
He had been so dear to me that for my entire childhood the mere thought that one day he could no longer exist brought all of nature, both outside and inside of me, to a standstill.—But actually, under the influence of ever deeper initiation, nature eventually became more expressive, touching and moving to me with every loss that I suffered as if it brought me ever closer to its heart.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
And we, who have always thought of happiness as rising , would feel the emotion that almost overwhelms us whenever a happy thing falls .
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I have my dead, and I have let them go, and was amazed to see them so contented, so soon at home in being dead, so cheerful, so unlike their reputation. Only you return, brush past me, loiter, try to knock against something, so that the sound reveals your presence. Oh don't take from me what I am slowly learning. I am sure you have gone astray if you are moved to homesickness for anything in this dimension.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Try to express what you see and experience and love and lose as if you were the first man alive.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke