Quotes About Sacrifice

Then the girl spoke to the child. She told him she'd rather it remain this way between them. That she'd rather their story not move from this place, even if the child didn't understand her; that it remain in this desire, even if that meant she put herself to death. Not a real death, mind you, but a dead death, where you don't hurt, where you're never sad, you're never punished, nothing. She said, 'It should be completely impossible.' She said, 'It should be desperate.

And it really was unto death. It has been unto death.

If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell all thou hast and give it all to poor and then sue[8] me and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.

the lover who leaves reason in control does not follow his god to the end.

To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us by earth; it is to consume a sacrifice wherein we sustain ourselves at the expense of things.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Manger un fruit, c'est faire entrer en soi un bel objet vivant, étranger, nourri et favorisé comme nous par la terre; c'est consommer un sacrifice où nous nous préférons aux choses.

Si había esperado protegerme mediante su sacrificio, debió pensar que yo lo amaba muy poco para no darse cuenta de que el peor de los males era el de perderlo.

Le renoncement au cheval est un sacrifice plus pénible encore : un fauve n'est qu'un adversaire, mais un cheval était un ami. Si on m'avait laissé le choix de ma condition

Lo guardé a mi servicio; su presencia me sirve de advertencia, quizá de castigo. No había querido dejar tuerto a aquel miserable. Pero tampoco había querido que un niño que me amaba muriera a los veinte años.

Je ne dis pas que l'ambition soit un vice inutile ; elle peut servir à fouetter l'âme. Seulement elle l'épuise. Je ne sache pas de succès qui ne s'achète par un demi-mensonge ; je ne sache pas d'auditeurs qui ne nous forcent à omettre, ou à exagérer quelque chose. (p. 81-82)

You are my blood mate," he says simply, finding my hand and squeezing it with his own. "I would die for you." Gah! A little warning before the touching would be nice. Mainly so I can resist the overwhelming urge to morph into a jiggly pile of Jell-O, thank you very much. "You'd … die… for me?"" I manage to choke out. I've got to lighten the mood here. "Technically aren't you already dead?

You'd drain someone dry for me?

I awake. I don't mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.

And not actually the great sacrifice that I'm making

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

The price for Jarrod's freedom is to be my imprisonment.

Když otevÃ…â"¢ela o?i, zabolelo ho to. Tak velká byla oddanost v jejím pohledu. Chame, zaÅ¡eptala. Jak by mohl Ã…â"¢íci, že ji jeÅ¡tÄ› nikdy nemiloval tolik jako nyní, když byl zamilován do jiné. Kdyby se odvážil, možná by v hloubi protiklad?, které tvoÃ…â"¢ily její podstatu, porozumÄ›la.

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

His correction of our perception is called the Atonement.

Most men have no idea of the lengths to which a woman will go for love of the depths of our despair when we feel it cut off.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

Was it worth while, he thought, to be so wise, if wisdom made one at times so sad? Was it well to sacrifice Faith for Fact, when Faith was so warm and Fact so cold? Was it better to be a dreamer of things possible, or a worker-out of things positive? And how much was positive, after all, and how much possible? He balanced the question lightly with himself. It was like a discord in the music of his mind, and disturbed his peace.

There never was a Christian save One, and He was crucified.