Top 182 Martyr Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.
A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
I am selfless only to an extent, I can't be a martyr, I have a daughter to raise.
Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.
The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.
If the heart bleeds love, bare it,
If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.
Oh, I'm a martyr to music.
The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.
We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.
A dead martyr is just another corpse.
I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.
No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.
I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.
Ease off the martyr throttle.
For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.
We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood.
A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
I am not being a martyr when I say that I don't regret putting my career on the backburner.
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.
a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!
It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.
I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.
It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.
In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.
As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.
Being a martyr is highly overrated.
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.
I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.
The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
