Quotes About Sacrifice

Akatsu finally deserted in September, 1949, four years after the four of us had come together.

When Akatsu disappeared the fourth time, Shimada started to go look for him, but this time Kozuka and I argued that it was a waste of effort. We did this with the knowledge that Akatsu would eventually tell the enemy everything he knew about our group.

The beach at Gontin was unlucky for Shimada. On May 7, 1954, he was killed at a spot only about half a mile from the place where he had been wounded in the leg.

About ten days after Shimada died, a Philippine Air Force plane trailing a streamer behind it passed over several times. It dropped leaflets, and a loudspeaker kept saying, "Onoda, Kozuka, the war has ended." This infuriated us. We wanted to scream out to the obnoxious Americans to stop threatening and cajoling us. We wanted to tell them that if they did not stop treating us like scared rabbits, we would get back at them someday, one way or another.

Together, Kozuka and I vowed that somehow we would avenge Shimada's death.

If there should indeed be a full-scale search, we had a plan for escaping from the island, but in the event that we were found before we could carry this into effect, we had resolved to inflict as much damage as we could. If we had to die, it would be easier knowing that we had killed ten or twenty or thirty enemy troops.

If I could kill one more enemy with the last bullet, so much the better. That, rather than commit suicide, seemed to me to be what a soldier ought to do.

I was doubly impressed with the responsibility I bore. I said to myself, "I'll do it! Even if I don't have coconuts, even if I have to eat grass and weeds, I'll do it! These are my orders, and I will carry them out." It may sound strange today, but I meant it.

If I get killed," I thought, "I'll be enshrined as a god at Yasukuni Shrine, and people will worship me. That isn't so bad.

As it was, I had to listen to these men babbling at the mouth about dying for the cause, and listen silently with the knowledge that I was not permitted that out. I could not even hint to anyone that I had orders not to die. It was frustrating in the extreme.

The only way I could see now to discharge my duty to those who had died so tragically was to carry out this desperate night attack on the enemy. I would lead the way into the enemy camp and slaughter as many Americans as I could.

I end up saving the world, just to save you

Only when I save the lives of others do I truly feel as though I am human. Do you only feel that you are human when you take the lives of others?

È un errore che non dimenticherò. Tutto il male nasce dalla debolezza. E io negavo la mia debolezza ferendo coloro che mi si paravano davanti. Ma sono cambiato quand'ho incontrato quel tipo… Per questo sono stato trafitto. Volevo purificarmi. Non m'interessa se vivo o muoio, ma se l'anima di suo fratello può essere salvata… E se posso lavare la mia colpa…

It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.

ibis in crucem ('you shall go to the cross')

There's always something left to lose.

Sweet Jude, you're my dearest punishment

Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

I am tired of caring," I say. "Why should I?" "Because they could kill you!" "They better," I say to her. "Because anything less than that isn't going to work.

He rises from the throne. "Come, have a seat." His voice is replete with danger, lush with menace. The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible. "This is what you wanted, isn't it?" he asks. "What you sacrificed everything for. Go on. It's all yours.

I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously

I would settle for even his worst self, his cruelest trickster self, if only he could be here." -Jude Duarte