Martyrdom Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Martyrdom.
Top Quotes
“Martyrdom in Islam”
“The noble army of martyrs.”
“Strangulatus pro republica.”
“Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.”
“Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.”
“It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr.”
“Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.”
“The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.”
“Wikipedia: Martyrdom”
“When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of “Orthodoxy, True and False” and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.”
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“Martyrs! who left for our reaping
Truths you had sown in your blood—
Sinners! whom long years of weeping
Chasten'd from evil to good.”
“For a tear is an intellectual thing;
And a sigh is the sword of an angel-king;
And the bitter groan of a martyr's woe
Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow.”
“He strove among God's suffering poor
One gleam of brotherhood to send;
The dungeon oped its hungry door
To give the truth one martyr more,
Then shut,—and here behold the end!”
“"There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.”
“Nothing, indeed, can be more deserving of our admiration than the conduct of the Christian martyrs, who cheerfully submitted to an ignominious death, inflicted by the most atrocious torments, rather than deny their faith even by the mere performance of an apparently insignificant rite of Paganism.”
“The Sheikh has departed, may God have mercy on him, to his God as a martyr and we must continue on his path of jihad to expel the invaders from the land of Muslims and to purify it from injustice. Today, and thanks to God, America is not facing an individual or a group, but a rebelling nation, which has awoken from its sleep in a jihadist renaissance.”
“His wife and children, being eleven in number, ten able to walk, and one sucking on her breast, met him by the way as he went towards Smithfield: this sorrowful sight of his own flesh and blood, dear as they were to him, could yet nothing move him, but that he constantly and cheerfully took his death with wonderful patience, in the defence and support of Christ's Gospel.”