Martyr Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?”

— Louise Penny

“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence,…

— Philippe Claudel

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

— Oscar Wilde

“A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no…

— Michael Novak

“It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Well, you see, she was saintly but she wasn't a saint. No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate…

— Evelyn Waugh

“She wasn't planning on being a saint, right? Why would she? She'd get old and then regret it. What pleasure was there in being…

— Wiesław Myśliwski

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

— Jane Howard

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not…

— Isabel Allende

“And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How…

— Amy Bloom

Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

— Neal Shusterman