Top 134 Martyrdom Quotes & Sayings

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

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

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

It is not suicide; it is martyrdom in the name of God. I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an indication of the justice of Allah almighty. Allah is just. Through his infinite wisdom, he has given the weak what the strong do not possess and that is the ability to turn their bodies into bombs as the Palestinians do.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

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

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . . . Al-Hotary, the son of Palestine, whose noble soul ascended to . . . in order to rest in Allah's Kingdom, together with the Prophets, the men of virtue, and the martyrs. The heroic martyrdom operation . . . who turned his body into bombs . . . the model of manhood and sacrifice for the sake of Allah and the homeland.

Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal that the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those who wish to undermine this principle undermines the foundations of our independence and national security . . . The message of the (Islamic) Revolution is global, and is not restricted to a specific place or time . . . Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

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

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.

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

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Martyrdom of followers is a strategy of political leaders to grab money and power.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long 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.

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.

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

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

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.