quotations about blood
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
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
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
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
No distance breaks the tie of blood;
Brothers are brothers evermore.
JOHN KEBLE
The Christian Year: Second Sunday After Trinity
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 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
The blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry IV, Part I
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Rosmunda
I learned to play the instruments of war ... and paint in blood.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Lost Souls
Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Timoleon
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
DIANA PETERFREUND
Rampant
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 will have blood.
ROBERT SOUTHEY
Madoc in Wales
Blood is a juice of rarest quality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust