Quotes About Sacrifice

I'm sorry Elena. I know that you want to help, but put yourself in her shoes, everything that happened tonight was to save you and that's OK because she loves you so much. But somehow she's always the one who gets hurt.

I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you that I can't be selfish with you. I don't deserve you, but my brother does.-Damon Salvatore, S2

And I swear she will never know my secret. She will never have to give up the sunlight because of me.

I wasn't afraid to die. But, as odd as it was after our years of fighting, I was afraid to live in a world without Damon. My brother was callous, rude, and destructive. And yet he had saved me on more than one occasion during our time in London. He was the one on whom I could count when no one else could be trusted. He was all I had.

She'd have him, even if it killed her. If it killed both of them, she'd have him.

I, Cassie, swear not to betray my trust..." she whispered, and watched her own blood trickle off the side of her hand. "Not by word, or look, or deed, waking or sleeping, by speech or by silence..." She repeated it in a whisper. "... in this land or any other. If I do, may fire burn me, air smother me, earth swallow me, and water cover my grave.

She'd have him, even if it killed her. If it killed both of them, she'd have him

I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain.

Dieu n'aurait pas été digne de créer le monde, s'il avait oublié dans le néant l'immense Racaille qui devait un jour le crucifier.

L'odieuse créature qui n'avait jamais aimé personne l'adorait inexplicablement, lui appartenait corps et âme, jouissait d'être rossé par lui et aurait fait calciner sa fille pour lui plaire.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: "You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter."

for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures. I

Of all the contracts I had signed, this was perhaps the only one that my father could never have imagined me signing, for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures.

Soldiers and children do as they're told. Children grow out of it, but soldiers just die.

There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.

Love makes a person do strange things.

There comes a certain point with a hope or a dream, when you either give it up or give up everything else.

magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

Good little girls don't stab their nurses and drag toddlers over their corpses in order to save their lives. Good little girls don't kill. They die. And Minya was not a good little girl.

You're doing so well." At being Thiago, she meant. "It's a little eerie." "Eerie," he repeated. "Convincing. A few times I almost forgot--" He didn't let her finish. "Don't forget. Not ever. Not for a second." He drew in breath. "Please." So much behind that word. Please don't forget I'm not a monster. Please don't forget what I gave up. Please don't forget me.

I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned