Martyr Quotes

We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us. — Justin Martyr

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

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution. — Henrik Ibsen

But we're also taught that you're not a martyr if you blow yourself up in a marketplace, because you're killing civilians and other Muslims. — Maajid Nawaz

But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too. — Darnell Lamont Walker

A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. — G.K. Chesterton

Prophet (PBUH) considered the ink of a scholar to be holier than the blood of a martyr. — Imran Khan

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,
Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll
With all my flesh, and keep my soul. — Stevie Smith

A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life. — Sayyid Qutb

I've poured my heart out on this page. Now burn it and destroy the evidence that anyone ever cared this much for you. — Kate McGahan

You're wallowing in guilt and he's playing the martyr. It's like living in the middle of Hamlet. — Susan Mallery

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

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. — Muqtada Al Sadr

A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The Captain: A martyr, Lavinia, is a fool. Your death will prove nothing.
Lavinia: Then why kill me? — George Bernard Shaw

What a martyr craves more than anything is a sword to fall on, so you sharpen the blade and hold it at just the right angle. — Kevin Spacey

Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them. — Chuck Hogan

Being a martyr is highly overrated. — Patricia Briggs

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries. — Robert Breault

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false. — Justin Martyr

We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in and loved — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Choosing to be God-like does not mean you choose to be a martyr. And it certainly does not mean you choose to be a victim. — Neale Donald Walsch

If the heart bleeds love, bare it,
If the martyr's crown fits, wear it. — Roger McGough

It was hard not to exude the air of a martyr, if one did just slightly more than the other, as it seemed Mickey frequently did. — Joyce Carol Oates

I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live. — Gannicus

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him. — Murray Kempton

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. — Flannery O'Connor

Life is about discovering things worth dying for. — Criss Jami

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr. — Hugo Chavez

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. — Ambrose Bierce

Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire. — Robertson Davies

Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart. — Justin Martyr

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. — Giordano Bruno

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs. — Mir-Hossein Mousavi

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure. — Robert Wilson Lynd

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief — Emile M. Cioran

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. — Rita Mae Brown

A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. I'd rather be a living coward any day. — Mira Grant

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. — Nazr Mohammed

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. — Stanley Hauerwas

He was breaking his fast on white wine and raw onions, in order to keep up the character of martyr, I conclude. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Ease off the martyr throttle. — Jim Butcher

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine

Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr? — Louise Penny

Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile.
Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex. — Christine Feehan

We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible. — Justin Martyr

Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs. — Bhagat Puran Singh

Christ needs people today who are made of martyr stuff! Dare to take a strong, uncompromised stand for Him. — Billy Graham

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations. — Craig Ferguson

No more martyring myself. — Sharon E. Rainey

The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains! — Mark Twain

Playing the martyr doesn't suit you, Leila.'
'Maybe not, but playing the complete and utter bastard clearly suits you. — Lindsay J. Pryor

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. — Charles Caleb Colton

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr. — Thomas Szasz

Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero. — Amit Kalantri

There was the stink of burning martyr in the air. — Lauren Groff

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel. — Eduard Hanslick

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. — Henry Suso

I am no martyr. I am not vengeance. I am Eo's dream. — Pierce Brown

These actions can lead to the martyr syndrome, in which people sacrifice their own desires to arouse feelings of pity or guilt in others. — Henry Cloud

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! — Pink Floyd

Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies. — Karina Halle

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. — Benjamin Cardozo

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's. — O. Henry

You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know". — Penn Jillette

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr - smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile. — Henri Barbusse

People not cry 'coztheir weak,
It Beacaus They've been srong ...
GFor too long !! — Reynilyn

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it. — Diane De Poitiers

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much. — Ayn Rand

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. — Justin Martyr

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed. — Leo Rosten

Martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with. — Susan Moody

One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad. — Marissa Meyer

It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ. — Oswald J. Smith

My future chef was an oversized, hysterical hedgehog with a martyr complex. — Ilona Andrews

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power. — Elbert Hubbard

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma. — Jean Cocteau

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

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs. — Miguel De Unamuno

You really need to get over your martyr complex. One of these days it's going to get you killed. — Aimee Carter

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus. — Justin Martyr

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. — Will Rogers

I know why you do what you do, and I get it. But from one ex-martyr to a current martyr ... get over your bullshit and ask for help. — Samantha Young

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. — Schuyler Colfax

After the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth — Leo Tolstoy

One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad — Marissa Meyer

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you. — Margaret Mitchell

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on. — Anna Cora Mowatt

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. — John Barth

He who leaves his home in search of knowledge walks in the path of God ... and the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr; — Will Durant

I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I expected then as I still expect today — Malcolm X

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause? — Ernestine Rose