Quotes About Sacrifice

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Amo os que não procuram por detrás das estrelas uma razão para morrer e oferecer-se em sacrifício, mas se sacrificam pela terra, para que a terra pertença um dia ao Super-homem.

Ja volim onog ?ija se duša rasipa, koji ne?e da mu kažu hvala, niti sam kaže hvala: jer on uvek daje i ne?e da se sa?uva.

Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

A nation goes to pieces when it confounds its duty with the general concept of duty. Nothing works a more complete and penetrating disaster than every impersonal duty, every sacrifice before the Moloch of abstraction.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. Other men have the same yearning, even when power means visible disadvantages, the sacrifice of their happiness, and well-being; they are the ambitious. Other men, again, are only like dogs in a manger, and will have power only to prevent its falling into the hands of others on whom they would then be dependent.

Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!

The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments; one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength.

To sacrifice God for nothingness—this paradoxical mystery of the ultimate cruelty has been reserved for the rising generation; we all know something thereof already.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

Todo lo que se hace por amor, se hace más allá del bien y del mal.

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

But have you ever asked yourselves sufficiently how much the erection of every ideal on earth has cost? How much reality has had to be misunderstood and slandered, how many lies have had to be sanctified, how many consciences disturbed, how much God sacrificed every time? If a temple is to be erected a temple must be destroyed: that is the law – let anyone who can show me a case in which it is not fulfilled!

You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid for her love?

Eres para tu amigo aire puro y soledad, pan y medicina? Hay quienes no pueden desatar sus propias cadenas y sin embargo son salvadores para sus amigos.

Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!

One must be prepared to sacrifice all desirability to truth, every truth, even plain, harsh, ugly, repellent, unchristian, immoral truth.?For such truths do exist

Thus spake the devil unto me, once on a time: "Even God hath his hell: it is his love for man.

And when a person goeth through fire for his teaching -- what doth that prove! It is more, verily, when out of one's own burning cometh one's own teaching!

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

Every kind of perfection is purchased at a high price on earth, where everything is perhaps purchased too dear; one is an expert in one's department at the price of being also a victim of one's department.

The genius, in work and deed, is necessarily a squanderer: he squanders himself. That is his greatness! … He flows out, he overflows, he uses himself up, he does not spare himself—and this is a calamitous involuntary fatality, no less than a river's flooding the land.

I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to perish through the present ones.