Quotes About Sacrifice

But Daisy saw the colour ebb from his face, the light leave his eyes, and reached him first, and it was Daisy who caught him as he fell.

I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.

My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.

Divinely blessed is rose or man That answers to love's whispered plan, And gladly owns it paradise To be love's perfect sacrifice.

When the toiler bends and labors till his sweat turns into pearls, 'Tis a nobler decoration than the coronets of earls.

Some hold love to be for conquest, both of persons and of things, But supreme love, all unheeding, straight forgets the gift it brings.

He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

One mother could look after twelve children and decades later these twelve adults would fidget and struggle to look after that one mother.

He ragarded her in surprise. This was a different tune from the one he'd expected to hear, certainly a change from the verse she'd sung when he was a boy. Commitment to ones' name, to one's heritage, to that which the sacrifices of others had made possible -- that was the song he used to hear from Aunt Mary. "Yes, I do," she said, "If I've learned anything by now, it's that some things are too priceless to sacrifice for a name." - Mary and William

Love is a cognitive, willful act. Feelings have very little to do with it, particularly around three o'clock in the morning when the baby needs changing or somebody has "lost it" before getting to the bathroom to throw up.

bravery often demands a price.

I will love you if you don't marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else... and I will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I must say that on late, cold nights I prefer this scenario out of all the scenarios I have mentioned. That, Beatrice, is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.

The phrase 'for naught' is simply a fancy way of saying 'for nothing,' and it doesn't matter which phrase you use, for they are both equally difficult to admit.

Sunny Baudelaire

People have done difficult things for more or less noble reasons.

Was it really necessary? Was it absolutely necessary to steal that sugar bowl from Esmé Squalor?

volunteer fire department?

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Christ, you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're going to crucify me.

Sergeant Gavin Sutherland

Traditionally the strongest weapon that a Chinese woman had was suicide.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressure, and that is the basis of all human morality. And whatever maybe the sactifices he faces if he follows his conscience, the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men, each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.