Quotes About Sacrifice

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

People are inspired to do remarkable things to find and be with the one they love.

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.

That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.

Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours. -Phury's thoughts

If pain is truly love, for my family I die.

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

You love me this much.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?" "It was love because it was worth it.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Love is the image of ourself until ourself destroys us.