Quotes About Sacrifice

To save Germany was not granted to them; only to die for it; luck was not with them, it was with Hitler. But they did not die in vain. Just as we need air if we are to breathe, and light if we are to see, so we need noble people if we are to live. —RICARDA HUCH,

When our lives are lived for the Lord, to the glory of God, and in the name of Christ, all of life becomes worship.

Simon, you gave me no water to wash my feet, but this woman as washed them with her tears. You gave me no kiss, but she has not ceased to kiss my feet. Do no reproach her Simon for you did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed me for my burial.

Great loves too must be endured.

As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.

If I cannot have too many truffles I will do without.

Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

Love...is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one all-powerful and barely differentiated Other.

Lecz kobiecie z trudem przychodzi nie oddac sie mezczyznie

I'd rather be miserable with you than without you.' - Colette, Gigi

A good communist," the man had said, "does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction. He eats with her, tends to her injuries, and sleeps with her until the job is done." Siri had resisted the temptation to spread the word that the Party was advocating bestiality.

no burdens were shed – they were merely passed from the shoulders of one to those of another.

It is difficult to imagine love without generosity, without a desire to make some sacrifices. To-day

Po to i ma szlachta krew, aby j? przelewa?a

I renounced complete happiness in order to secure a part of it.

Poland! Poland! The very name carries with it sighings and groanings, nation-murder, brilliance, beauty, patriotism, splendors, self-sacrifice through generations of gallant men and exquisite women; indomitable endurance of bands of noble people carrying through world-wide exile the sacred fire of wrath against the oppressor, and uttering in every clime a cry of appeal to Humanity to rescue Poland.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Older men declare war. But its the youth who must fight and die!

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.