Quotes About Sacrifice

You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.

It was like a great big déjà vu moment. Last time he had sprinted at the pack and tackled the man holding the Ring. And it had been a mistake. But as Dak sat there, studying the scene, he realized something: He would always race to help Sera when she appeared to be in danger. He didn't care how many times it was a mistake. There was no way he would ever be able to just sit back and let something possibly happen to her.

When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will.

More often, they insist that their advantage lies not in having more to give but rather in being able to give more of what they have.

They gave the world some of its finest heroes. Saving them's the least we can do.

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?" "Pretty much.

That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another's pain as if our own.

Dads are just men who have babies but I know he loved me because I felt it go out of me when he crashed. It was like air or blood or bones or something that made me me and it wasnt there any more and I had only half of it now and I didn't know if that was enough.

And yet the irony was that she soon placed herself in the margins voluntarily, giving up work for family, because she imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about unborn children than unwritten books.

Lives are lost in wars but it doesn't mean they shouldn't ever be fought.

You gave up the universe for a life on the sofa?' 'I didn't realise that at the time.

Lives are lost in order to save more lives. That is what the society is fighting.

Ain't no choice in love and life

This is everything I wanted, so why am I not happy? So what was Schopenhauer's answer? Well, if wanting things was the problem, the answer had to be in giving things up. In his language, the cause of suffering is intensity of will.

On the cross, God subverted everything we intuitively understand about power … For many of us, coming to terms with the thought that great blessings come through great suffering is a tough pill to swallow.

And yet she did understand: not only the lengths to which a mother might go to protect her child; but the impulsive acts to which a heart, disturbed by years of longing, might be prone.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Such a price The Gods exact for song; To become what we sing.

Charge once more, then, and be dumb!Let the victors, when they come,When the forts of folly fall,Find thy body by the wall.

even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers . . . as far as I know, all the fighting men of our army want peace; and it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

In the Randian cosmology the dollar replaced the crucifix. Christianity, she said, is "the symbol of the sacrifice of the ideal to the nonideal.

they also abjured what they saw as the manipulation and duplicity of the political newspapers, which, they claimed, sacrificed "every principle of freedom" for the short-term gain of whichever party they happened to favor.

A Christian makes his body a sacrifice to God, though he does not give it to be burned.

Holy love to God is the fire by which all our offerings must be made; else they are not of a sweet savour to God.