#martyr

However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I’d not only turn the other, but I’d ask pardon for provoking it – and, as proof, I’ll go make my peace with Edgar instantly – Good night – I’m an angel! ↗

— Emily Brontë

#martyrs #humor

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

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

— Indira Gandhi

#does #end #martyrdom #only #something

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

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#create #creates #martyrs #more #say

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

— Saint Augustine

#makes #martyr #punishment

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#any #chooses #control #every #exaggeration