quotations about blood
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Selected Letters
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
DIANA PETERFREUND
Rampant
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
BIBLE
Psalms 58:10
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
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Blood is memory without language.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I Locked My Door upon Myself
Unless our shoes are filled with blood we
haven't walked
DANIEL ABDAL-HAYY MOORE
"Let the Snake Who Knows the Secret"
That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Rosmunda
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
Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Timoleon
Blood will have blood.
ROBERT SOUTHEY
Madoc in Wales
Blood is a juice of rarest quality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust
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
I learned to play the instruments of war ... and paint in blood.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Lost Souls
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