self-sacrificer

Updated: May 2, 2025

Even an action for love's sake shall be "unegoistic"? But you fools ! "And the praise of the self-sacrificer?" But whoever has really offered sacrifice knows that he wanted and obtained something for it perhaps something from himself for something from himself; that he relinquished here in order to have more there, perhaps in general to be more, or even feel himself "more."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

Each he found springing from the unconscious love of self and the dread of the greater pain which the self-sacrificer would suffer in-forbearing the sacrifice.

William Dean Howells - My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)

But the thought of him who turns to self- sacrifice is, "I have been gaining, but I only gained to give. Here is my opportunity. Let me pour out as largely as I may." He contemplates final impoverishment. Accordingly I was obliged to say in my definition that the self-sacrificer seeks to heighten another's possessions, pleasures, or powers at the cost of his own.

George Herbert Palmer - The Nature of Goodness

Let us, then, consider the injury that may result to the self-sacrificer, throughout the countless ages of eternity, from the loss of that working-time of hours, days, and years, wilfully flung from him for the uncertain benefit of another.

Anonymous - The Young Lady's Mentor: A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends

Each he found springing from the unconscious love of self and the dread of the greater pain which the self-sacrificer would suffer in-forbearing the sacrifice.

William Dean Howells - Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship