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Quotes About Bloodlust

Carlo: The phenomenon of serial killers—is it a sexual thing, too, Richard? Is sex part of the crimes? Ramirez: Sex? For some serial killers, sure. For some it is the very act of killing another human being that is ... that ... uh ... that is sexual to them. It's a bloodlust, I guess you can say.
~ Philip Carlo
For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust.
~ Debra Granik
All he saw was madness and bloodlust and jealousy carved onto countless bleeding and mangled faces.
~ James Dashner
Bloodlust found free play in recaptured Delhi. Wilson ordered that anyone found with a weapon should be killed, not taken prisoner. In the event, the empty-handed too were slain.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
~ Barry McGuigan
The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.
~ Meryl Streep
You came after all, Z. Glad you made the party. (Acheron) What the hell? I didn't have anything better to do. Figured I might as well come kick ass and take names. Not that I really give a damn about their names. I'm just in it for the bloodlust. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He wondered if a werewolf's bloodlust, its passion, its compulsion, could possibly be more unendurable than his thirst.
~ Elizabeth Bear
'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of actors who share a certain bloodlust.
~ Tracy Letts
It was a fear that disappeared once the action started, to be replaced by the mad bloodlust that was sometimes called courage.
~ Mary Balogh
In comparing Belle to Jack the Ripper as a murderer driven by bloodlust and employing a signature MO, this anonymous expert accurately identified her as the type of homicidal maniac for which no name had yet been coined: what a later age would call a serial killer.
~ Harold Schechter
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
~ Jane Smiley
Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks. The difference is bloodlust.
~ June Casagrande
My nightly blood lust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
He saw them as a mob, carried away by their own bloodlust, and just as easily manipulated by their rulers as their entertainers. A crowd of otherwise intelligent or moderate individuals, could become a hive of unthinking insects, hornets incited by a wave of the hand or the proclamation of a meaningless slogan.
~ Brian Godawa
the bloodlust of a mob was always louder than a lone, reasonable voice.
~ Steven Erikson
I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let all of it go. No need to hide. Magic flowed through me, intoxicating, heady, seductive. It mixed with my bloodlust and I realized that's how my father must have felt when he led his armies into battle. I was raised by Roland's Warlord. I'd dropped my shackles and they would bow to me.
~ Ilona Andrews
'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'
~ Christopher Golden
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. The scent of blood is all it takes to wake him.
~ George R.R. Martin
who had become the monk, or the one who had earned the title of The Bloodlust Warrior of Hastings. The man she had vowed
~ Tamara Leigh
Bloodlust is the only real tribute the mediocre are capable of bringing to the extraordinary
~ James Baldwin
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
~ P. C. Cast
Bloodlust is like a natural disaster; it has to run its course. I have seen their faces; they are faces out of nightmares—most ordinary—so ordinary that you can't believe the brains behind them capable of genocide.
~ Unknown
Cage fighting appeals to the savage instinct in some people, including me, and we're all here for the same reason—to see one fighter annihilate another. We want to see bleeding eyes, gashes across the forehead, choke holds, bone-ripping submissions, and brutal knockout punches that send the corners scrambling for the doctor. Mix in a flood of cheap beer, and you have five thousand maniacs begging for blood.
~ John Grisham