Martyrdom Quotes

“The martyrdom of me.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

A death for love's no death, but martyrdom.

— Anonymous

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

— Mark Twain

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

— John Dryden

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

— Lord Byron

“It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

— Benjamin Wittes

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Anonymous

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

— Barbara Mertz

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

— Anonymous

“Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.”

— Robertson Davies

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

— Muqtada al Sadr

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

— Jonathan Edwards

We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory.

— Ahmed Yassin

“Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.”

— Winston S. Churchill

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

— Horace Mann

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

— George Eliot

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at…

— Bhagat Singh

“Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Thomas Browne

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should…

— Samuel Johnson

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for…

— Walter Kirn

What were you thinking?" I demanded once we were moving to the music. I was trying to ignore his hands. "Do you…

— Richelle Mead

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault,…

— Ernst Jünger

“Martyrdom, which looked so splendid when consummated selon les regles on Tower Hill or Tyburn, before pitying, or (still better) scoffing multitudes,…

— Charles Kingsley

Why would the apostles lie?…Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out…

— Peter Kreeft

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it…

— Patrick Pearse

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom…

— Lysander Spooner

Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the…

— Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

“Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“When, in 2012, Newt Gingrich was asked about how his religious beliefs would affect his conduct should he become president, the Republican…

— Candida Moss

“About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone…

— W.H. Auden

I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of…

— James Balog

“The account given us by an eminent primitive writer, Clemens Alexandrinus, ought not to be overlooked; that, as James was led to…

— John Foxe

“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic…

— Dr. Teresa Morgan

“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'…

— Christopher Hitchens