quotations about blood
In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
ABERJHANI
The River of Winged Dreams
The first records of our young world were those of tears and blood; its last records will be those of tears and blood also.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Romance and Reality
For naturally blood will aye of kind
Draw unto blood, where he may it find.
JOHN LYDGATE
Troy
Besides, another motive power doth rise
Out of the heart, from whose pure blood do spring
The vital spirits, which, borne in arteries,
Continual motion to all parts do bring.
JOHN DAVIES
A Poem on the Immortality of the Soul
There's no other safety, there's no other plea,
There's no other refuge whereunto to flee;
The blood, and that only, can safety insure:
The blood, and that only, can cleanse and make pure.
A.E.R.
Thoughts of Peace and Other Poems
Blood was flowing--in Bluebeard's house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his seal to whiten the windows. Blood and Milk flowed together.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Collected Poems
Why should he live now Nature bankrupt is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet LXVII
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams,
fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs
and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.
PABLO NERUDA
The Month of March Returns with its Hidden Light
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Selected Letters
You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Inferno
What cost knows not our blood?
HORACE
Odes
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
I'm a vampire, baby, suckin' blood from the earth. Well, I'm a vampire, babe, sell you twenty barrels worth. Good times are comin'.
NEIL YOUNG
"Vampire Blues"
I am here a stranger to all feasts but those of blood.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Agamemnon
Blood is memory without language.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I Locked My Door upon Myself
Human blood is all of a color.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
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
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
DIANA PETERFREUND
Rampant
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