Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.