quotations about blood
The blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry IV, Part I
Why should he live now Nature bankrupt is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet LXVII
Unless our shoes are filled with blood we
haven't walked
DANIEL ABDAL-HAYY MOORE
"Let the Snake Who Knows the Secret"
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
BIBLE
Psalms 58:10
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
Blood is memory without language.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I Locked My Door upon Myself
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
Blood will have blood.
ROBERT SOUTHEY
Madoc in Wales
Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Timoleon
Blood is a juice of rarest quality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust
I learned to play the instruments of war ... and paint in blood.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Lost Souls
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
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