Quotes About Sacrifice

You must admit, Harry, that women give to men the very gold of their lives.' 'Possibly,' he sighed, 'but they invariably want it back in such very small change.

Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Robert, how could you have sold yourself for money? I did not sell myself for money. I bought success at a great price. That is all.

We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.

A mother's love is very touching, of course, but it is often curiously selfish. I mean, there is a good deal of selfishness in it.

All excess, as well as renunciation, brings its own punishment.

Dünyan?n en güçlü insan? bile olsan, sevdiÄŸine kar?? kaybedersin.

He gives me good advice...People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

And self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law.  It is so demoralising to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself.  They always go to the bad.

How sad it is! murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June.... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that--for that--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

It is said that all martyrdoms seemed mean to the looker-on.

Yüzeysel hüzünler, yüzeysel aÅŸklar uzun ömürlüdür. Büyük aÅŸklar, büyük ac?larsa kendi büyüklüklerine kurban olurlar.

a new Hedonism that was to recreate life and to save it from that harsh uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival. It was to have its service of the intellect, certainly, yet it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience.

People are fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

Women give to men the very gold of their loves.

You will see the girl to whom I am going to give all my life, to whom I have given everything that is good in me.

Not worthy! Why, the whole world is nothing to me compared with her.

Why can't you be like the Happy Prince?" asked a sensible mother of her little boy who was crying for the moon. "The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.

His eyes opened when it was all over. You should have let me die. I couldn't, she said. He took my soul. No, love, he couldn't. Your soul is safe with me.

15 For fifty fillérs my father would eat a fly, for one florint you could take a picture of the cadaver in his tongue, for five florints and an apple (Starking), he'd bite a mouse in two. He never worked with outsourced mice, he liked to catch his own.

I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen.

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones. - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)