Martyrdom Quotes

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of pride in a culture of martyrdom.

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!

Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing in victim consciousness? Righteous indignation or an excuse not to change?

I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don’t want to die for love. I want to live for it.

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything

A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.

Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?

If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.

Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.

Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell

The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality, and he would kill him.

The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time.