Quotes About Sacrifice

Helena Ekdahl, the famous actress – who was brought to Uppsala by her rich, young husband – who bought a theatre for her – and allowed her to play in it until he decided it was time to start a family.

In this respect, the concept of "the people" is converted into, say, slaves, workers, wage earners, lesser functional officials, etc., and, as well, breeders of millions of disposable and replaceable "soldiers" who fight and die in whatever wars are designated by their higher-ups.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and have half lost my mind in the process.' Van Gogh

There are things that are more important than life.

Nie ma nic za darmo. Darmowa jest tylko ?mier?, cho? i ona kosztuje przecie? ?ycie.

Women, our superiors! Yes, my brothers: accept this strange judgement from the mouth of one who has known many of them. They are superior to us in the constancy of their sacrifice, in their faith, their resignation, they die better than us; in short they are superior to us in the most important things, in the practical science of life, which as you know, is a race to death.

What is love? Love is not a collection of words, a sonnet, music or art. Love is the act of you not existing so that someone else can.

no matter how inconvenient it was to him. That's what love's all about.

If you love someone, you should be there for them during the tough stretches, no matter the cost to yourself—or your job. Love's supposed to bear all things and endure all things. It's not supposed to fail.

I don't know if anyone ever "wins" a war, Jeth.

Knives poised close to the throat—then the voices are slowly imbibed. Glutted majesty heaves himself back from the vampiric supper, While the Judas trees thrive in the hush of their forested bed.

To a man who came from a military culture in which pilots were given swords instead of parachutes, and in which suicide was infinitely preferable to capture, it was incomprehensible that the Chinese would not fight an enemy to the death.

I'd want to hold you if you were going to lead me down to hell. Because if that's where you were, that's where I'd want to be.

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

Gilgi is drifting in the river of superfluous feelings. Superfluous? They were once, they seemed to be once. Isn't she happy? Of course she is. Often. But the hours of happiness come at a high price. The bill is presented promptly. Pay it! With what? With fear and twinges of pain. No, I don't think the price is too high, I just find the currency strange. Fear - pain! To whom should I pay them? Who profits from this odd currency?

Then I can sit in the film café from morning till night, all year round. Some day they will discover me as a starved corpse to use as an extra.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

This is the army, Mr. Jones,No private baths or telephones.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.