#marty

The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#chivalry #ernst-jünger #martyrdom #patriotism #self-distancing

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#ceaselessly #drunk #drunken #escape #hour

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#martyrs #our #past #possess #tomorrow

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#does #end #martyrdom #only #something

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#dare #died #forgive #his #jesus

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#matrimony #meanness #union

The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#made #martyrs #people #really #who

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory. ↗

— John Foxe

#crowned #crowns #eternal #flowers #garlands

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#body #cross #elevated #martyrs #their

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. ↗

— John Keats

#been #could #die #i #love