Quotes About Sacrifice

With all great loves there is first a great struggle

Nothing but love, and in this world, love isn't enough.

To the one who does the butchering, eating will always be a sacrament. The flesh in the dome of your mouth, your flesh, this fallen world.

Instead of making it safe, love—whether for all beings or for one—actually breaks your heart. Being loved is uncomfortable; and the more I love, the more uncomfortable it is. In the end, I'm still not quite sure what I've vowed to do either as a wife or a bodhisattva, except to break my own heart, over and over. And to see what happens next.

Ah," she said, and laughed, and whispered, "I choose the slain.

For love may be wonderful, but it demands time, space, energy and a willingness to accommodate.

Janet showed her teeth. "Time to get real, Sarah. No more human sacrifices, got it?

Take it away," she pointed at the green milk in a normal tone. "Anna and wife of Lir. Both must stay.

B]ehind the mother fighting for her son's life was the priestess of the forest and the cup.

The Bodhisattva says he will do wrong to stop wrongdoing. . . . He will kill to stop killing. As an exception. He calls it 'doing surgery, not violence.' You remove the one killer to stop many killings.

Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.

Amar es ponerse al cuello el nudo corredizo de la ilusión; adorar a alguien mientras pareces asfixiarte. Pero incluso el amor no correspondido, el amor fugaz, es mejor que nada.

The Han Chinese] gathered to oppose their Manchu overlords, shouting, "Keep your hair, even if you lose your head!

Knowing the price and choosing to pay it and keep on paying it, over and over again—that's what makes him invincible.

An ox is born and bred to carry our burdens. A saint is like an ox.

It seemed very hard, when his father fought to protect the Union and our flag, and yet his boy was denied, under this same flag, a berth to carry him home to die, because he was a negro.

For long and weary months, without pay or even the privilege of being recognized as soldiers, you labored on, only to be disbanded and sent to your homes without even a hope of reward, and

She was going to let him in, going to give him everything he so desperately wanted, and take more form him than he'd probably dreamed he was capable of giving. - Molly to 'Jones'/Grady

Oh, man. Yeah, Wes was going to kill him. But before he did, Bobby would ask them to put four words on his tombstone : It Was Worth It.

Yeah, Wes was going to kill him. But before he did, Bobby would ask them to put four words on his tombstone: It Was Worth It.

There is a cycle of love and death that shapes the lives of those who choose to travel in the company of animals. It is a cycle unlike any other. To those who have never lived through its turnings and walked its rocky path, our willingness to give our hearts with full knowledge that they will be broken seems incomprehensible. Only we know how small a price we pay for what we receive; our grief, no matter how powerful it may be, is an insufficient measure of the joy we have been given.

I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.

There are much worse games to play.