Andrew Klavan Quotes

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Individuals must die that the nation may live.