Seneca the Younger Quotes

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

I'm extremely lucky to be doing what I'm doing right now and I work very hard at maintaining this career and living this dream that I'm living, but there's also a price to pay. I mean, we give a lot of ourselves and every day.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

If following Jesus Christ doesn't cost you anything, it's because you've bought into 'American Christianity.'

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

It's always pretty dark. It's not a farce, this is Homeland. Throughout six seasons, we've been trying to understand what it's like to be a civil servant, and the cost involved, and it's big. A lot of these people make profound sacrifices, and are very isolated and estranged from the people they love. That's a reality.

No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.

I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valour pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!

For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.

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. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

No one should have to pay for love in flesh or blood. (Acheron)