“I jus' try to sacrifice myself, so I get runner to third. If I do, I feel good. But I get heet and Willie scores, and I feel better than good. [...] What makes me feel most good is that the skipper let me play the whole game. I think maybe he take me out after a few innings for Aaron but no, he pay…”— Roberto Clemente, en.wikiquote.org
“Loving you is not a choice, It's who I am. Loving you is not a choice And not much reason to rejoice, But it gives me purpose Gives me voice to say to the world: This is why I live You are why I live. Loving you is why I do The things I do Loving you is not in my control. But loving you, I have a go…”— Stephen Sondheim, en.wikipedia.org
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”— Steve Biko, en.wikiquote.org
“there’s no way I am breaking into pieces [anymore] to put someone else back together. boundaries. I did that for too long.”— Alex Elle, amazon.com
“Sacrificing everything that you care about in order to make another person happy is not love. It’s not really that some people are gardeners and some people are flowers… It’s that we both must be both, each in our own time.”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and…”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“Maybe one day you’ll come back. Maybe you never will and that’ll suck, but you can’t keep doing this. The blame and the self-loathing and the bull[crap]. I can’t watch that. It makes me hate you for hating yourself. I don’t want to lose you. But I’d rather lose you if it means you’ll be happy. I thi…”— Katja Millay, amazon.com
“I have to do it you see? I have to push you away. Because I ruin every good thing that comes my way. I can’t ruin you. Not now. But I will never let myself get to the point where I can. So I’ve got end it you see? Because I can’t do it, I can’t hurt you. I love you so I have to. I have to and I’m so…”— Nicholas Gariepy, thelovejournals.com
“How many young women have I watched weep their days away over disinterested men? To all of them, I want to say, Look up. Get a life, because he has.”— Cammie McGovern, amazon.com
“What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“But that’s love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending tor…”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com