Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
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