quotations about blood
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Inferno
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
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"
For naturally blood will aye of kind
Draw unto blood, where he may it find.
JOHN LYDGATE
Troy
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"
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Selected Letters
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
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
In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
ABERJHANI
The River of Winged Dreams
They speak of blood that makes things pure,
But blood makes stains that long endure
And cause the cloth to which they cling
To seem a spoiled and dirty thing.
JAMES L. CLARK
Hourglass and Other Poems
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
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
I am here a stranger to all feasts but those of blood.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Agamemnon
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
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
BIBLE
Psalms 58:10
But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
BIBLE
Deuteronomy 12:23
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
What cost knows not our blood?
HORACE
Odes