Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.

Sir, let me explain how I see this issue. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying. Here is how it works. You know that my sermons on tape have spread all over the country. If you...

I'd die for your sins, but I'd probably enjoy them first

You cannot drink the nectar of love without bleeding for its thorns.

In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That's called sacrifice.

All great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

How many have died that I might live? And who has died that I might live?

.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you. ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.

I gave them everything I had, and I guess it feels alright. I gave them my body, and they use it every night.

Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life - if ever I thought a good thought - if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer - if ever I wished a righteous wish - I am rewarded now....

It's worth burning myself out like a match so long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch.

I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…" He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. "I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I...

"Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."

I cannot exist without you, so killing Galen is not an option. I would rather lose you to the Stormdancer than lose you in the sky.

Brandon's greatest regret is that he has but one life to give for Gondor.

"I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know my son... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life."

One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return home once more, to the wild forest and the land of mystic tales and...

But for my home, for Prythian and the human territory and so many others … I would clean my blades, and wash the blood from my skin. And I would do it again and again and again.

Everyone says that love requires the utmost honesty, but that's not entirely true. Once I knew that my father was suffering for my sake—really suffering—I learned that love, especially the...

There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no...

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

WL's {White Liberals} think all the world's problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don't believe that. There's a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It's what separates...

Also … the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.