“Martyrdom is something a Christian resigns himself to, not an end he seeks out.” — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. I'd rather be a living coward any day.” — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“Forget about afterlife, focus on afterlight, light that is left behind, by your deeds of life.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“And the only thing worse than the silencing of a martyr, a real martyr – someone with dangerous ideas – is silencing… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Dying is easy. Anyone can throw themselves onto the pyre and rest a happy martyr. Enduring the suffering that comes with sacrifice… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side… — Abram Joseph Ryan Copy Share Image
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans. — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
“Do you know the difference between a hero and a martyr?” Quentin shook his head. “A hero is alive,” Father Harry said.… — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
The faithful are ever sustained by the presence of the Supreme Concourse. In the Supreme Concourse are Jesus, and Moses, and Elijah,… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“[...]not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross.” — David Platt Copy Share Image
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Supporters of Osama bin Laden want to rename the Arabian Sea after bin Laden's death. They want to call it "Martyr's Sea."… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs,… — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour,… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“Consider in his spiritual martyr this being who lies with closed eyes, dislocated like the victim of a brutal accident who no… — Anna de Noailles Copy Share Image
“I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural… — Robert B. Seidensticker Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
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