quotations about blood
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
DIANA PETERFREUND
Rampant
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Selected Letters
I learned to play the instruments of war ... and paint in blood.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Lost Souls
Unless our shoes are filled with blood we
haven't walked
DANIEL ABDAL-HAYY MOORE
"Let the Snake Who Knows the Secret"
Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Timoleon
Bloodshed is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood.
PATRICK PEARSE
"The Coming Revolution", 1913
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
BIBLE
Jeremiah 48:10
That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Rosmunda
Blood is a juice of rarest quality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust
Blood is memory without language.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I Locked My Door upon Myself
Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain.
R.D. RONALD
The Zombie Room
Blood will have blood.
ROBERT SOUTHEY
Madoc in Wales
I am in blood
Stepp'd so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions