“Forget about afterlife, focus on afterlight, light that is left behind, by your deeds of life.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman 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
“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
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
“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
I'm not going to paint myself as an angel, but I feel my colour works against me when I'm up in court.… — Mark Morrison Copy Share Image
Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more… — Florence Nightingale 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
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
A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men;… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,… — Michael Parenti 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
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
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
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“The world at large is not easily moved to action; it requires many terrible martyrdoms to disturb its equilibrium of dullness; and… — Francisco Ferrer Guardia Copy Share Image
... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image