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Quotes About Sacrifice

Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love, to know that writing compensates for nothing..
~ Roland Barthes
No lance have I, in joust or fight, To splinter in my lady's sight; But, at her feet, how blest were I For any need of hers to die!
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
If you love someone you would be willing to give up everything for them, but if they loved you back theyd never ask you to.
~ Anonymous
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
~ Mother Teresa
Love is like war; begin when you like and leave off when you can
~ Spanish proverb
Clare Boothe Luce
~ Unknown
Love is a kind of military service
~ Latin proverb
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!
~ John Dryden
Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you love something, set it free; if it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
~ Richard Bach
The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love, bottling
~ Helen Rowland
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
~ Pope Paul VI
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name
~ William Shakespeare
There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.
~ Unknown
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
~ Thomas Dewar
Great loves too must be endured
~ Coco Chanel
And the tree was happy
~ Shel Silverstein
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions
~ Jerry Falwell
If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me
~ William Congreve
Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
~ Marguerite Gardiner
Love is basically like leaches .... They suck until they cant get enough of you. Until you find a catapillar that will turn into the butterfly that you have wished for all of your life. Then they just spread their wings and fly away.
~ Milan Kundera