Quotes About Sacrifice

Her granny used to say, We've always been poor as Job's turkey and most likely always will be.

When you have a child, you have to put things aside, though. You have to live for them, if not for yourself. I was aware of this. I knower that I could not let myself die inside, so I struggled through and made a way for myself. Most important, I tried to find a way to get joy into my life. I made a way for the possibility of joy. I looked for it anywhere I could find it. I got up early and stepped out onto the porch to see day come in.

A particular kind of patriotism, promises of adventure, finances. This is how boys end up soldiers.

Pyrrhus invaded Italy at the start of the campaigning season in 280 BC. In two brutal and bloody battles he successfully defeated the Romans. The Greek king, though, having seen so many of his soldiers slaughtered in achieving this success, was said to have remarked, 'With another victory like this, we will be finished!' (Hence our modern phrase 'pyrrhic victory'.)

Horror can only be borne if one ceases to think of the individual identity of those involved;

Christ asked for everything he got.

Si un estudiante no se desmoronaba cuando tenía que matar a los suyos, no tendría escrúpulo moral para exterminar miles de Untermenschen. El estudiante que no lo resistía, era enviado al frente, donde sus superiores lo destinaban a un Himmetfahrtskommando, escuadrón suicida

The remains of sixty thousand young seamen now lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. More men had died there in the five years of the Second World War than in all of the conflicts in the ocean since the first Romans had set out on their invading expeditions nearly two thousand years before.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

It's easy to pay with the blood of others.

But what does the word insist mean after a whole life of love and understanding? I have never asked anything for myself that I did not also wish for him.

Love is then renunciation of all possession, of all confusion. One renounces being in order that there may be that being which one is not.

One can not, without absurdity, indefinitely sacrifice each generation to the following one; human history would then be only an endless succession of negations which would never return to the positive.

Am înv??at, de asemenea, c? pentru a p?trunde taina lucrurilor trebuie, înainte de toate, s? te d?ruieÈ™ti lor.

But it is impossible for anyone to say 'I am sacrificing myself' without feeling bitterness.**

Pero nadie puede decir: «Yo me sacrifico», sin sentir amargura.

It is quite certain that the surpassing of the past toward the future always demands sacrifices; to claim that in destroying an old quarter in order to build new houses on its ruins one is preserving it dialectically is a play on words; no dialectic can restore the old port of Marseilles; the past as something not surpassed, in its flesh and blood presence, has completely vanished.

All that a stubborn optimism can claim is that the past does not concern us in this particular and fixed form and that we have sacrificed nothing in sacrificing it; thus, many revolutionaries consider it healthy to refuse any attachment to the past and to profess to scorn monuments and traditions.

The centre of the world is no longer where she is but where her beloved is; all roads leave from and lead to his house. She uses his words and repeats his gestures, adopts his maniacs and tics. 'I am Heathcliff,' says Catherine in Wuthering Heights; this is the cry of all women in love; she is another incarnation of the beloved, his reflection, his double: she is he. She lets her own world flounder in contingence. She lives in his universe.

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.

The Cross of Christ is the only gateway to knowledge.

God] created beings capable of love from all possible distances. Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this agony beyond all others, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

God alone is capable of loving God. We can only consent to give up our own feelings so as to allow free passage in our soul for this love. That is the meaning of denying oneself. We are created for this consent, and for this alone.