Martyr Quotes
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.213
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.
Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com
Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.52, New Directions Publishing
Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.243, Macmillan
Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.46, New York Review of Books
Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert, February 08, 1776.
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.516, ShandonPress
John Dryden (1767). “THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND”, p.31
"The Cambridge Modern History". Book edited by Adolphus William Ward et al., Vol. 10, p. 122, 1907.
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
Evelyn Underhill (2004). “Light of Christ: Addresses given at the House of Retreat Pleshey, in May, 1932”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers