Quotes About Sacrifice

Then he returned to his theme: 'If so many lovers feel the desire to die and more and more die each day, while still in love, it is because love and death are linked by analogies, by underground passages, and communicate. One leads to the other. The one makes the other more acute, more intense. There is no doubt that death is a great stimulant of love. ("Love And Death")

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

She pushed a strand of white hair under the scarf. Surely, it seemed to Sweeney and Wettlaufer, she was the essence of the good deed unselfishly performed, the deed that could save the world if the world wanted saving.

I knew something about myself. Killing was indecent, depraved. I would not get used to it. One killed to survive, to keep one's loved ones alive. No good attached to ending the lives of others. That Ukrainian kid had parents, a family, hopes. Like the millions of us now dying for no reason.

literature and opera are full of characters who die for love: i stay alive for her. - Excerpt from "No Longer A Teenager

No one would speak, so Terence took a deep breath, let it out slowly, and said, "My liege?" "Yes, Terence?" "Twenty years ago I decided I would die for you. I may not be able to do that tomorrow, but if I can't, I can at least die beside you.

Pa, I can't ask her to marry me until I have a way to care for her.

First of all, there is a difference between redemption and restoration. What you're talking about is restoration, putting things back as they were before. That is not what redemption is. Christ is the Redeemer because he paid the price for our sins, Joshua. In his sacrifice he took the pain of our sins upon him, he took the effects of our transgressions upon himself.

We gave the best blood of our generation to win liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Would you throw it away so cheaply? And with the very instrument we gave you to protect it?

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

He did not turn. Embracing his sister, he stepped off the bank, onto the ice. He walked out into the centre, where the ice was thin. His sister's head lay on his shoulder. They stood there for a moment, as the ice groaned and cracked. Then it gave way.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

Like lambs to the slaughter.

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.

All that a man hath will he give for his life.

I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.