This collection holds 77 martyr quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Dylan Thomas, Jim Butcher and Patricia Briggs.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

Ease off the martyr throttle.

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.

martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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

The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.

I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

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

It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.

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

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

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

I am selfless only to an extent, I can't be a martyr, I have a daughter to raise.

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

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

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

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

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

If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

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

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

Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.

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

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

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

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

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